Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Yielding reward; rewarding.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Yielding reward.
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- adjective Yielding
reward .
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- adjective offering or productive of reward
Etymologies
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Examples
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When they undertake the burdensome but joyous labour of maternity, is there any security, of rewardful honour and social influence?
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But there is much in these last Tales that is trivial and tedious, and it must be said that their publication has chiefly served to deter many readers from the pursuit of what is best and most rewardful in the study of Crabbe.
Crabbe Ainger, Alfred, 1837-1904 1903
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If we had learned nothing else than this, that through work is growth, this World's Fair would have been a rewardful out -
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As already pointed out, Mary Lambs part was the least rewardful, for she had to give to the improbabilities of the comedies an air of probability, which denied the compensations of glowing poetry and brilliant wit.
Introduction 1878
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But there is much in these last Tales that is trivial and tedious, and it must be said that their publication has chiefly served to deter many readers from the pursuit of what is best and most rewardful in the study of Crabbe.
English Men of Letters: Crabbe Alfred Ainger 1870
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Whose grace was great and bounty most rewardful "*
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Strictly speaking, it is not a city, but a place of pleasant and rewardful living. "
Masters of Space Robert Lee [Illustrator] Berry 1925
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Whose grace was great and bounty most rewardful. "
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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