well-doing

See also: welldoing

English

well-doing (uncountable)

The practice of doing good; virtuousness, good conduct.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 16, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  If we take not the law of weldoing from our selves: if impunity be justice in us: to how many kindes of treacherie are we daily to abandon our selves?
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 213:
  But I will not have your murderous propensities interfere with Emily's well-doing.

well-doing (not comparable)

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