meedful
Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adjective Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious.
Examples
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On that day that S. Louis was buried, a woman of the diocese of Sens recovered her sight, which she had lost and saw nothing, by the merits and prayers of the said debonair and meedful king.
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I say not that the naked thinking of these two thoughts is so meedful; but that reverent affection, to the which bringing in these two thoughts are sovereign means on man's party, that is it that is so meedful as I say. [
The Cell of Self-Knowledge : seven early English mystical treatises printed by Henry Pepwell in 1521
Note
The word 'meedful' comes from an Old English word meaning 'reward, compensation'.
