welldoing
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of welldoing
Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; see origin at well 1, doing
Example Sentences
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Mr. Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness.
From Time Magazine Archive
This ideal of education and welldoing, as all the world knows, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has followed with rare assiduity, with an amazing versatility of means.
From Time Magazine Archive
An utilitarian reduction of welldoing to a distribution of properly calculated doses of satisfaction he dismissed with a scorn as derisive as Carlyle's; "general utility" was a favourite of "that old stager the devil."
From Robert Browning by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)
It engendered a sense of importance, gave life fulness and variety; and this far outweighed the trifling inconveniences such welldoing implied.
From Maurice Guest by Richardson, Henry Handel
A good proportion of vegetable soil is necessary to its welldoing.
From Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens by Cook, Ernest Thomas
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