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meedful

meedful adjective: worthy of meed or reward; deserving; meritorious.

Adjective

meedful (comparative more meedful, superlative most meedful)

  1. 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.1909, Edward Verrall Lucas, A wanderer in Paris
    • 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.1910, Henry Pepwell, Edmund Garratt Gardner, The cell of self-knowledge

Forms of meedful

comparativemore meedful
superlativemost meedful

Origin of meedful

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

Questions about meedful

What does meedful mean?
Meedful means worthy of meed or reward; deserving; meritorious.
What part of speech is meedful?
Meedful is an adjective.

Words near meedful in the dictionary

  1. MEECN
  2. meed
  3. meeded
  4. Meeder
  5. Meeders
  6. meedful
  7. meeding
  8. meedja
  9. meedless
  10. meeds
  11. meedy

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