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Jeed vs Meed - What's the difference?

jeed | meed |

As verbs the difference between jeed and meed

is that jeed is (jee) while meed is to reward; bribe.

As a noun meed is

a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.

jeed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (jee)
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    jee

    English

    Verb

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    meed

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , IV.i:
    • 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.
  • *
  • A gift; bribe.
  • (obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
  • * (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
    • My meed hath got me fame.
    Quotations
    * (English Citations of "meed")
    Derived terms
    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) meden, from (etyl) *.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To reward; bribe.
  • To deserve; merit.

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