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meedful

adj

Etymology

Calque of Middle English medeful; equivalent to meed + -ful.

  1. derived from *mey-✻ — “to exchange”
  2. inherited from *misdʰós✻
  3. inherited from *mizdō✻
  4. inherited from *miʀdu✻
  5. inherited from mēd
  6. inherited from meede
  7. suffixed as meedful — “meed + ful”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of meed or reward

    Worthy of meed or reward; deserving; meritorious.

    • "On that day that S. Louis was buried," we there read, "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.
    • 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.
    • By some truly it is doubted which life is more meedful and better; contemplative or active.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA