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welldoing

American  
[wel-doo-ing] / ˈwɛlˈdu ɪŋ /

noun

  1. good conduct or action.


Etymology

Origin of welldoing

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; 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

His judgment may, as a consequence, be biased in a wrong direction, and the result prove seriously injurious to the welldoing of the patient.

From The Maternal Management of Children, in Health and Disease by Bull, Thomas

She would not allow herself so silly a cloak of pride; and she went daily to her favourite "Book of Martyrs," to contemplate there the stories of those who really innocent, really suffered for welldoing.

From Two Years Ago, Volume I by Kingsley, Charles

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