meed
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of meed
before 900; Middle English mede, Old English mēd; cognate with German Miete hire; akin to Old English meord, Gothic mizdō, Greek misthós reward
Example Sentences
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Their only meed--some execrating word To blight the hour when first their voice was heard.'
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We make war oftentimes for a little childish anger, or for hunger of money, or for thirst of glory, or else for filthy meed.
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Each float in passing received its meed of praise and applause.
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Let the sick starve and the breasts of the women run dry, so long as God receives due meed of sacrifice.
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Jacob does not yet seem to have taken up the difference between inheriting a thing as God’s gift, and inheriting it as the meed of his own prowess.
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