Middle English Dictionary Entry
wel-dọ̄er(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | wel-dọ̄er(e n. |
| Etymology | From wel adv. & dọ̄er(e n. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) One who behaves properly; one who acts or lives according to the moral teachings of the church;
(b) one who is beneficent, a benefactor.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?a1390) Mirk Fest.(GoughETop 4)1/9 : Holy chyrch makyth mencyon of two comyngys of Crist…forto by mankind out of þe deueles bondage and to bryng hym and weldoers to þe blys þat euer schall last.
- a1500 Chartier Treat.Hope (Rwl A.338)37/30 : The kynge is nat the feer of wele-doers but he is dredefull to them that done amysse.
b
- c1400 Life Soul (LdMisc 210)49/12 : Þilk þat han power vpon hem ben icleped wel doeres.
- a1425 *Medulla (Stnh A.1.10)9b/a : Benificus: a wel doere.