Meed vs Merd - What's the difference?
meed | merd |
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:
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A gift; bribe.
(obsolete) Merit or desert; worth.
* (and other bibliographic details) (Shakespeare)
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between meed and merd
is that meed is (obsolete) merit or desert; worth while merd is (obsolete) ordure; dung.As nouns the difference between meed and merd
is that meed is a payment or recompense made for services rendered or in recognition of some achievement; reward, deserts; award while merd is (obsolete) ordure; dung.As a verb meed
is to reward; bribe.meed
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) meede, mede, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- My meed hath got me fame.