reguerdon

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verb

To recompense or reward.

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Meanings

reguerdon1

verbreguerdon (third-person singular simple present reguerdons, present participle reguerdoning, simple past and past participle reguerdoned)

present singular third person reguerdons · participle present reguerdoning · participle past reguerdoned · past reguerdoned

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo 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)

reguerdon2

nounreguerdon (plural reguerdons)

plural reguerdons

  1. obsoleteA 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)

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
reward

Origin

reguerdon · verb

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”).

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reguerdon · noun

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

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

reguerdon. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reguerdon

MLA

“reguerdon.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reguerdon. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “reguerdon,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/reguerdon.

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