bountyhed

English

Noun

bountyhed (uncountable)

(obsolete, nonce word) goodness; virtue
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1:
  Formerly grounded, and fast setteled / On firme foundation of true bountyhed […]

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