meed
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Is meed a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (now literary, archaic) A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward; award.Examples: "For well ſhe wiſt,as true it was indeed / That her liues Lord and patrone of her health / Right well deſerued as his duefull meed, / Her loue,her ſeruice,and her vtmoſt wealth."; "Brought up in darkness, and the child of sin, Yet, as the meed of spotless innocence, Just Heaven permitted her by one good deed To work her own redemption, after death."; "Public gratitude, therefore, stamps her seal upon it, and the meed should not be withheld which may here after operate as a stimulus to our gallant tars."archaicliterary
2. (dated) Merit; worth.Examples: "[…]my meed hath got me fame:[…]"; "In any case, his life would be in ignominy and would be brief, and he would have lost irretrievably the meed of valour."dated
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To reward; bribe.transitive
2. (transitive) To deserve; merit.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary