Definition of "guerdons" [guerdons]

• Plural form of guerdon. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of guerdon. (verb)

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• "Moreover, he made distribution of money to the men-at-arms and gave guerdons, and the provincials abode in the city a full week ere they departed each to his own country and place."
• "Wherefore, since supported by the goodness of the aforesaid prince of worthy memory, we were able to requite a man well or ill, to benefit or injure mightily great as well as small, there flowed in, instead of presents and guerdons, and instead of gifts and jewels, soiled tracts and battered codices, gladsome alike to our eye and heart."
• "To whichsoever of us shall prove the better men, will they fall as guerdons; and the gods themselves are the judges of the strife."