meed
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1. meed - Noun
2. meed - Verb
Meaning
That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.
Merit or desert; worth.
A gift; also, a bride.
To reward; to repay.
To deserve; to merit.
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A good turn at need, At first or last, shall be assur'd of meed.
Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Without the meed of some melodious tear.
We shall suddenly be taken from all our pain and from all our woe, and of His Goodness we shall come up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus for our meed and be fulfilled with joy and bliss in Heaven.
May Heaven, if virtue claim its thought, If justice yet avail for aught; Heaven, and the sense of conscious right, With worthier meed your acts requite!
You will wear the ivy wreath, the victor's meed.