Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • According to meed or desert; suitably.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb According to merit; suitably.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb According to meed or desert; suitably.

Etymologies

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From Middle English medefully, equivalent to meedful +‎ -ly.

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Examples

  • For neither is the light so large that we may see our blissful Day, nor is it shut from us; but it is such a light in which we may live meedfully, with travail deserving [340] the endless worship of God.

    Revelations of Divine Love 1901

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