Definition of Deed

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Definition of Deed

Deed

Dead.

That which is done or effected by a responsible agent; an act; an action; a thing done; -- a word of extensive application, including, whatever is done, good or bad, great or small.

Illustrious act; achievement; exploit.

Power of action; agency; efficiency.

Fact; reality; -- whence we have indeed.

A sealed instrument in writing, on paper or parchment, duly executed and delivered, containing some transfer, bargain, or contract.

Performance; -- followed by of.

To convey or transfer by deed; as, he deeded all his estate to his eldest son.

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Deed Quotations

Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
Mohandas Gandhi

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.
Mohandas Gandhi

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
William Shakespeare

The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
William Shakespeare

The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. Eliot

He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
Amelia Earhart

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.
Albert Schweitzer

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
Vincent Van Gogh

Deed Translations

deed in French is fait
deed in German is Tat, Urkunde
deed in Italian is documento
deed in Latin is factum
deed in Norwegian is gjerning

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