dealth
English
Etymology
From deal + -th (abstract nominal suffix), modelled after health, stealth, wealth, etc.
Pronunciation
Noun
dealth
- (obsolete) A share dealt out; a portion or division.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Right well deserued as his duefull meed,
Her loue, her seruice, and her vtmost wealth.
All is his iustly, that all freely dealth
- 1921, original 1638, Nathaniel Whiting, George Saintsbury, Minor Poets of the Caroline Period: Albino and Bellama:
- Then know, Bellama, since thou aim'st at wealth
Where Fortune has bestowed her largest dealth, […]
References
- “dealth”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.