DEEDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deeds mean? 

• DEEDS (noun)
  The noun DEEDS has 1 sense:

1. performance of moral or religious acts

  Familiarity information: DEEDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEEDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Performance of moral or religious acts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

deeds; works

Context example:

the reward for good works

Hypernyms ("deeds" is a kind of...):

activity (any specific behavior)

Domain usage:

plural; plural form (the form of a word that is used to denote more than one)

 Context examples 

I have been wicked in my day, but I never thought a little girl like you would ever be able to melt me and end my wicked deeds.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

They delivered him up to justice, and he and all his murderous band were condemned to death for their wicked deeds.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These deeds, whereof no man knows, I speak for myself.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Right here, I think, entered the austere conscience of my Puritan ancestry, impelling me toward lurid deeds and sanctioning even murder as right conduct.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“It is such men as he,” Sir Nigel remarked, “who give the true knight honorable deeds to do, whereby he may advance himself.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dreadful stories they were—about hanging, and walking the plank, and storms at sea, and the Dry Tortugas, and wild deeds and places on the Spanish Main.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was marred and scarred by that mysterious world of rough men and rougher deeds, the outposts of which began beyond her horizon.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If any good should come of me, I might begin to hope; for nothing but harm has ever come of my deeds yet.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)