Weald vs Wealed - What's the difference?
weald | wealed |
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.
* Tennyson
(weal)
(obsolete) Wealth, riches.
* Francis Bacon
* Milton
Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word).
* Macaulay
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* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 372:
a raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by stroke of rod or whip; a welt.
As a noun weald
is a wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; often used in place names.As a proper noun Weald
is the physiographic area in south-east England situated between the parallel chalk escarpments of the North and the South Downs.As a verb wealed is
past tense of weal.weald
English
Noun
(en noun)- Fled all night long by glimmering waste and weald', / And heard the spirits of the waste and ' weald / Moan as she fled.
Anagrams
* * ----wealed
English
Verb
(head)weal
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- as we love the weal of our souls and bodies
- to him linked in weal or woe
- Never was there a time when it more concerned the public weal that the character of the Parliament should stand high.
- Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.