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well-doing

well-doing noun: the practice of doing good; virtuousness, good conduct.

Noun

well-doing (uncountable)

  1. The practice of doing good; virtuousness, good conduct.
    • If we take not the law of weldoing from our selves: if impunity be justice in us: to how many kindes of treacherie are we daily to abandon our selves?1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
    • But I will not have your murderous propensities interfere with Emily's well-doing.1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 213

Adjective

well-doing (not comparable)

  1. virtuous

Questions about well-doing

What does well-doing mean?
Well-doing means the practice of doing good; virtuousness, good conduct.
What part of speech is well-doing?
Well-doing can be a noun or an adjective.

Words near well-doing in the dictionary

  1. well-designed
  2. well-developed
  3. well-disposed
  4. well-disposedness
  5. well-documented
  6. well-doing
  7. well-done
  8. well-dressed
  9. well-earned
  10. well-educated
  11. well-endowed

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