Definition of deed

"deed" in the noun sense

1. deed, deed of conveyance, title

a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it

"he signed the deed"

"he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment"

2. act, deed, human action, human activity

something that people do or cause to happen

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Quotations for deed

The will for the deed. [ Colley Gibber ]

Deed done is well begun. [ Dante ]

One kindly deed may turn
The fountain of thy soul
To love's sweet day-star,
That shall over thee burn
Long as its currents roll. [ Holmes ]

Thy will for deed I do accept. [ Du Bartas ]

The better day the better deed. [ Proverb ]

An ill deed cannot bring honor. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Life's no resting, but a moving;
Let thy life be deed on deed. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought! [ Longfellow ]

A noble deed is a step toward God. [ J. G. Holland ]

A deed of necessity is not sinful. [ C. C. Goetner ]

Whenever a noble deed is wrought.
Whenever is spoken a noble thought.
Our hearts, in glad surprise,
To higher levels rise. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Bad grammar does not vitiate a deed. [ Law ]

You must take the will for the deed. [ Swift ]

'Tis a kind of good deed to say well,
And yet words are no deeds. [ William Shakespeare ]

The flighty purpose never is o'ertook
Unless the deed go with it. [ Shakespeare ]

We'll take the good-will for the deed. [ Rabelais ]

A noble deed is a step towards heaven. [ J. G. Holland ]

I count this thing to be grandly true:
That a noble deed is a step toward God,
Lifting the soul from the common clod
To a purer air and a broader view. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

All money is but a divisible title-deed. [ John Ruskin ]

Patience is nobler motion than any deed. [ Bartol ]

I count this thing to be grandly true.
That a noble deed is a step towards God:
Lifting the soul from the common sod
To a purer air and a broader view. [ J. G. Holland ]

The word is always bolder than the deed. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Timely advised, the coming evil shun;
Better not do the deed, than weep it done. [ Prior ]

Who would ever care to do brave deed,
Or strive in virtue others to excel.
If none should yield him his deserved meed
Due praise, that is the spur of doing well?
For if good were not praised more than ill,
None would choose goodness of his own free will. [ Spenser ]

Vain-glorious man, when fluttering wind does blow
In his light wings, is lifted up to sky;
The scorn of knighthood and true chivalry,
To think, without desert of gentle deed
And noble worth, to be advanced high,
Such praise is shame, but honour, virtue's meed.
Doth bear the fairest flower in honourable seed. [ Spenser ]

Beside one deed of guilt, how blest is guiltless woe! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Revenge in cold blood is the devil's own act and deed. [ Proverb ]

There is a witness of the evil deed in one's own bosom. [ Danish Proverb ]

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward. [ Ovid ]

The best of the sport is to do the deed and say nothing. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He wishes well is worthless, unless the deed go with it. [ Plautus ]

Every deed in the history of the world begets another deed in turn. [ Arnold Schlönbach ]

If there be aught surpassing human deed or word or thought, it is a mother's love. [ Mme. de Spadara ]

The disposition to do a bad deed is the most terrible punishment of the deed it does. [ Charles Mildway ]

How far that little candle throws his beams! so shines a good deed in a naughty world. [ William Shakespeare ]

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. [ Wordsworth ]

The Italians are wise before the deed, the Germans in the deed, the French after the deed. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Every evil deed already bears its own avenging angel, the dread of evil, in the heart of it. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

One good deed dying tongueless slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages. [ William Shakespeare ]

Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fame. [ Skobeleff ]

A good deed is never lost: he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gathers love. [ Basil ]

Let the motive be in the deed, and not in the event. Be not one whose motive for action is the hope of reward. [ Krishna ]

I have learned to prize the quiet, lightning deed, not the applauding thunder at its heels that men call fame. [ A. Smith ]

Taking the first footstep with a good thought, the second with a good word, and the third with a good deed, I entered Paradise. [ Zoroaster ]

No man is justified in resisting by word or deed the authority he lives under for a light cause, be such authority what it may. [ Carlyle ]

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud an heroic deed. [ T. W. Higginson ]

Such penalties does the mere intention to sin suffer; for he who meditates any secret wickedness within himself incurs the guilt of the deed. [ Juv ]

I make little account of genealogical trees. Mere family never made a man great. Thought and deed, not pedigree, are the passports to enduring fate. [ General Skobeleff ]

God takes men's hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, where they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will. [ Richard Baxter ]

Every thought and word and deed, of every human being, is followed by its inevitable consequence: for the one we are responsible; with the other we have nothing to do. [ Gail Hamilton ]

He that is proud eats up himself; pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle: and whatever praises itself but in the deed devours the deed in the praise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

Almost every great soul that has led forward, or lifted up the race, has been furnished for each nobler deed, and inspired with each patriotic and holy aspiration, by the retiring fortitude of some Spartan - some Christian mother. [ C. J. White ]

Promising is the very air of the time; it opens the eyes of expectation: performance is ever the duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will, or testament, which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it. [ William Shakespeare ]

deed in Scrabble®

The word deed is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters deed:

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deed in Words With Friends™

The word deed is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters deed:

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The 41 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In deed

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Words containing the sequence deed

Words that start with deed (5 words)

Words with deed in them (2 words)

Words that end with deed (3 words)

Word Growth involving deed

Shorter words in deed

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Longer words containing deed

deeded

deeding

deedless

deeds misdeeds

indeed

misdeed misdeeds