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- (English noun)
- 1590, William Shakespeare, (Edward to Richard, Henry VI, Part III, Act II, Scene 1)
- We, the sons of brave Plantagenet, each one already blazing by our meeds, should notwithstanding join our lights together and over-shine the earth.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 3, Landlord Edmund
- Landlord Edmund was seen and felt by all men to have done verily a man's part in this life-pilgrimage of his; and benedictions, and outflowing love and admiration from the universal heart, were his meed.
1855, Thomas Carlyle, Fraser's magazine, Volume 52, Digitized edition, published 2005, page 345:Word-warriors and wit-wantons would waste their breath upon one whose book-hunger has won him so rich a meed, …
- 1926, T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- To man-rational, wars of nationality were as much a cheat as religious wars, and nothing was worth fighting for: nor could fighting, the act of fighting, hold any meed of intrinsic virtue.