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guerdon

[ UK /ɡˈɜːdən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a reward or payment

How To Use guerdon In A Sentence

  • Thanks to the school of scientific philosophers he favored, he knew the biological significance of love; but by a refined process of the same scientific reasoning he reached the conclusion that the human organism achieved its highest purpose in love, that love must not be questioned, but must be accepted as the highest guerdon of life. Chapter 23
  • Lors des championnats les plus récents, les mots qui ont permis aux gagnants de remporter la victoire ont été pococurante, autochthonous, appoggiatura, ursprache, serrefine, guerdon et Laodicean. Archive 2010-07-01
  • Now, I am receiving for all this a guerdon of blame and calumny, which is cast upon me in order to cover up faults which have been committed by others in past days. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
  • The winning words in recent competitions have included: pococurante; autochthonous; appoggiatura; ursprache; serrefine; guerdon; Laodicean. The American Spelling Bee
  • Let a Christian knight, crippled in war with the Saracens, present himself on the drawbridge, he is guerdoned with Anne of Geierstein
  • Then spake the lovesome maiden: "Rejoiced should I be, Could I for herald's guerdon give all my gold away!"
  • He also bestowed on them robes of honour and guerdoned them and divided the kingdoms between himself and his brother in their presence, whereat the folk rejoiced. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • “Then dirt and weather-beat shall be your guerdon of honour,” Chapter 39
  • Not long after those days, it so happening that some considerable amount of youthful energy and quidnunc ability were required to set litigation afloat at Hong Kong, Mr Romer was sent thither as the fittest man for such work, with rich assurance of future guerdon. Doctor Thorne
  • The winning words in recent competitions have included: pococurante; autochthonous; appoggiatura; ursprache; serrefine; guerdon; Laodicean. Archive 2010-06-01
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