welldoing

[ wel-doo-ing ]

noun

1. good conduct or action.

Word History and Origins

Origin of welldoing¹

Middle English word dating back to 1300–50; well ¹, doing

Example Sentences

But it is the will of God that by welldoing we should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

From Project Gutenberg

Mr. Donkin, a senior housemaster at Marbledown School, was far from wearied by his long years of welldoing, asked nothing more of fate than another decade or so in harness.

From Time Magazine Archive

One becomes weary in welldoing.

From Time Magazine Archive

This ideal of education and welldoing, as all the world knows, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has followed with rare assiduity, with an amazing versatility of means.

From Time Magazine Archive

A good proportion of vegetable soil is necessary to its welldoing.

From Project Gutenberg