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reguerdon

reguerdon verb: to recompense or reward.

Verb

reguerdon (third-person singular simple present reguerdons, present participle reguerdoning, simple past and past participle reguerdoned)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To recompense or reward.
    • Long since we were resolved of your truth, / Your faithful service and your toil in war; / Yet never have you tasted our reward, / Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Noun

reguerdon (plural reguerdons)

  1. (obsolete) A recompense or reward.
    • Stoop then and set your knee against my foot; / And, in reguerdon of that duty done, / I girt thee with the valiant sword of York.1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of reguerdon

Verb
third-person singular presentreguerdons
present participlereguerdoning
past participlereguerdoned
pastreguerdoned
Noun
pluralreguerdons

Origin of reguerdon

From Anglo-Norman reguerdoner (“to reward”), from re- + guerdoner (“to guerdon”), from Medieval Latin widerdōnum, alteration of widerlōnum, from West Germanic (whence Old High German widarlōn, Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin dōnum (“gift”).

From Anglo-Norman reguierdon, from re- + guerdon.

Words formed from reguerdon

  • reguerdonment

Questions about reguerdon

What does reguerdon mean?
Reguerdon means to recompense or reward.
What part of speech is reguerdon?
Reguerdon can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of reguerdon?
The past tense of reguerdon is reguerdoned.

Words near reguerdon in the dictionary

  1. reguardes
  2. reguarding
  3. reguards
  4. regucalcin
  5. regucalcins
  6. reguerdon
  7. reguerdoned
  8. reguerdoning
  9. reguerdons
  10. reguide
  11. reguided

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