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meed

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meed  (md)
n.
1. A fitting recompense.
2. Archaic A merited gift or wage.
[Middle English mede, from Old English md; see mizdho- in Indo-European roots.]
meed [miːd]
n
Archaic a recompense; reward
[Old English: wages; compare Old High German mēta pay]
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Noun1.meed - a fitting rewardmeed - a fitting reward                    
archaicism, archaism - the use of an archaic expression
reward - payment made in return for a service rendered
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Still grander are the gifts of heaven which Musaeus and his son vouchsafe to the just; they take them down into the world below, where they have the saints lying on couches at a feast, everlastingly drunk, crowned with garlands; their idea seems to be that an immortality of drunkenness is the highest meed of virtue.
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He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
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The helpful inmate had departed, without one backward glance to gather up the meed of gratitude, if any were in the hearts of those whom she had served so zealously.
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