Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Worthy of meed or reward; deserving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious.
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- adjective
Worthy ofmeed orreward ;deserving ;meritorious .
Etymologies
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From Middle English medeful, equivalent to meed + -ful.
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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.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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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 Henry Pepwell 1902
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