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Leed vs Meed - What's the difference?

leed | meed |

As nouns the difference between leed and meed

is that leed is sorrow, grief, woe while meed is a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award.

As a verb meed is

to reward; bribe.

leed

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Language; tongue.
  • A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
  • The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.
  • A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
  • A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
  • Patter; rigmarole.

    • Related terms

    * (l) ----

    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.

    • Anagrams

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