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dealth

dealth noun: a share dealt out; a portion or division.

Noun

dealth

  1. (obsolete) A share dealt out; a portion or division.
    • Right well deserued as his duefull meed,
      Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.
      All is his iustly, that all freely dealth1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Then know, Bellama, since thou aim'st at wealth
      Where Fortune has bestowed her largest dealth, […]1921, original 1638, Nathaniel Whiting, George Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period: Albino and Bellama

Origin of dealth

From deal + -th (abstract nominal suffix), modelled after health, stealth, wealth, etc.

Questions about dealth

What does dealth mean?
Dealth means a share dealt out; a portion or division.
What part of speech is dealth?
Dealth is a noun.

Words near dealth in the dictionary

  1. dealt it out
  2. dealt out
  3. dealt to
  4. dealt with
  5. dealtest
  6. dealth
  7. Dealu
  8. Dealu Morii
  9. dealuminate
  10. dealuminated
  11. dealuminates

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