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DEEDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Performance of moral or religious acts
Example:
the reward for good works
Synonyms:
deeds; works
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("deeds" is a kind of...):
activity (any specific behavior)
Domain usage:
plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)
Context examples:
When I came in he cleared the books and papers from the table; and with him I went into plans and deeds and figures of all sorts.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Will you be a little Dorcas, going about emptying a big basket of comforts, and filling it up with good deeds?
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Think of the deeds of hellish cruelty, the hidden wickedness which may go on, year in, year out, in such places, and none the wiser.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Mr. Jonas Oldacre then informed me that there were a number of documents—building leases, title-deeds, mortgages, scrip, and so forth—which it was necessary that I should see and understand.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was amazed at the interest and knowledge which all these great people showed about the ring, for they not only had the deeds of the principal men of the time—Belcher, Mendoza, Jackson, or Dutch Sam—at their fingers’ ends, but there was no fighting man so obscure that they did not know the details of his deeds and prospects.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, above all, he must be a man who could do, who could act, who could look Death in the face and have no fear of him, a man of great deeds and strange experiences.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Along with good-fortune Jupiter, you have Saturn (ruling the structure of a home), Pluto (ruling plumbing and the basement), and Mercury (ruling deeds, contracts, leases, and agreements) all in your home and family sector.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
So a lurking humor ran through his deeds, and it was his delight to steal upon the squirrels, and, when he all but had them, to let them go, chattering in mortal fear to the treetops.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
If you can perform such deeds as that, you are no gardener’s boy; tell me, who is your father?
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He and Sir Nigel sat late in high converse as to bushments, outfalls, and the intaking of cities, with many tales of warlike men and valiant deeds.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
