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reguerdon en · VERB · etymology 1

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman reguerdoner (“to reward”), from re- + guerdoner (“to guerdon”), from Medieval Latin widerdōnum, alteration of widerlōnum, from West Germanic (whence Old High German widarlōn, Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin dōnum (“gift”).

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To recompense or reward.
   • Long since we were resolved of your truth, / Your faithful service and your toil in war; / Yet never have you tasted our reward, / Or been reguerdon'd with so much as thanks. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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reguerdon en · NOUN · etymology 2

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman reguierdon, from re- + guerdon.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) A recompense or reward.
   • Stoop then and set your knee against my foot; / And, in reguerdon of that duty done, / I girt thee with the valiant sword of York. 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

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