deeds

Noun

Meaning

performance of moral or religious acts

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

fact title instrument certificate feat works papers proceedings packinghouse thee Acts monomachy digladiation

Antonyms

inventory inactivity stocking incongruence

Hypernyms

activity

Phrases with the word

heroic deeds do good deeds nefarious deeds criminal deeds consequences of deeds

Examples

... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that we shall not become partakers with Him in His glory. If that is true of us we shall be believers in word only, not in deed. When deeds are absent, our faith is dead. Symeon the New Theologian

If you find that there is no love in you, but you want to have it, then do deeds of love, even though you do them without love in the beginning. The Lord will see your desire and striving and will put love in your heart. Ambrose of Optina

It is pointless for someone to say that he has faith in God if he does not have the works which go with faith. What benefit were their lamps to the foolish virgins who had no oil (Mt. 25:1-13), namely, deeds of love and compassion? Gregory Palamas

A man of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. English Proverb

Do not be wise in words – be wise in deeds. Jewish Proverb

Words are mere bubbles of water; deeds are drops of gold. Tibetan Proverb

Close letter words and terms

deedly deedly ball Deedra deedwork deedworthy deedy