Middle English Dictionary Entry
guerdǒnen v.
Entry Info
| Forms | guerdǒnen v. Also guerdounen, gerdonen, gardonen. P.ppl. guerdǒned, igerdǒned. |
| Etymology | OF guer(r)edoner |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) To reward or compensate (sb.); to repay (a service), reward (good intentions); (b) to repay (sb., sth.) in kind, retaliate.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Mel.(Manly-Rickert)B.2462-5 : Right so rede I that they be heighly and souereynly gerdoned for hir noble speche..ye oghte the rather gerdone hem and shewen hem youre largesse.
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Pars.(Manly-Rickert)I.283 : The glorie of heuene, with which god shal gerdone man for hise goode dedes.
- (1404) Will York in Sur.Soc.4527 : The remanant of my goodes..pert it among my servantes, so yat ylkon of hem be gardoned ful and resonabely, after the lengthe of tyme and travayll yat yay have had wyth me.
- a1425(c1385) Chaucer TC (Benson-Robinson)2.1295 : Hire entente..Was for to love hym unwist..And guerdon hym with nothing but with sighte.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)5.pr.3.183 : That schrewes ben punysschid, or elles that goode folk ben igerdoned.
- ?c1425 Hoccl.RP (Roy 17.D.6:Furn.)819 : Guerdouned [Hrl: þe kyng..haþ for my long seruise Euer douned me in couenable wyse].
- c1430(c1386) Chaucer LGW (Benson-Robinson)2051 : To my fader shal I sende here This worthy man..And hym so gwerdone, that he shal wel be Oon of the gretteste men of my cuntre.
- (1433) RParl.4.424b : As yere bee many olde servantz..yat have dispended yaire yougthe in ye service of my Lordes..some withoute any liflode or guerdon..and some but esily guerdonned, and nought like to yaire desert and service.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.81 : It is an hertli reioishyng To serue a prynce that..list considre to guerdone ther seruise.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.3428 : God..Best can guerdone the inward entencioun Of eueri man, nat after the visage, But lik the menyng of ther inward corage.
- c1450 Scrope Othea (Lngl 253)50 : Þe which benefette we may not guerdon.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)1390 : Thou shalt be guerdownyd..With pees Eternal.
- a1450(c1410) Lovel.Grail (Corp-C 80)18.235-6 : I scholde ȝow so worthily Gwerdone thanne, That bettere gwerdoned nas neuere Manne.
- a1450(?1420) Lydg.TG (Tan 346)1139 : For long seruice guerdone him with grace!
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)197 : Halfpeny ne peny haue thei nouht yive, that it ne is guerdoned hem an hundreth fold.
- ?c1450 Knt.Tour-L.(Hrl 1764)113/29 : For that cause God guerdoned and quitte her therfor an hundred double.
- a1500(?c1450) Merlin (Cmb Ff.3.11)102 : God yeve yow this grace, and I may helpe yow ther-to, that ye guerdon me and my sone.
b
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.1805 : Kyng Orapastes, quakyng in his dreede..Was slayn ther, guerdoned for al his myht.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)6.1726 : Of tirauntis rekne up the bloodi wages: Sodeyn slauhtre guerdouned ther woodnesse.