英和和英

語源

From Middle English medefully, equivalent to meedful +‎ -ly.

副詞

meedfully (comparative more meedfully, superlative most meedfully)

1. (obsolete) According to meed or desert; suitably.
   • 16??, Crashaw, Hymn In Epiphany:

     And he more meedfully and nobly prove The nation's terror now than erst their love.

   • 1670, Julian (of Norwich), Revelations of Divine Love, shewed to a devout servant of our Lord, called Mother Juliana, an Anchorete of Norwich:

     This light is charity, and the measuring of this light is done to us profitably by the wisdom of God: for neither the light is so large that we may see clearly our blessedful day: ne it is all speered from us; but it is such a light in which we may live meedfully with travel, reserving the worshipful thanks of God.

   • 1915, George Philip Krapp, The Rise of English Literary Prose, page 46:

     But it is said commonly that three things are hard to men, to scorn meedfully, or meedfully plead with men, or else to fight with man, by the way of charity.