Obs. Also 4 þeodam, 5 thedam, -dame, þeedom. [f. stem of THEE v.1 + -DOM.] Thriving; prosperity.

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1362.  Langl., P. Pl. A. X. 105. Þruft or þeodam with hem selden is I-seye. Ibid. (1393), C. VIII. 53. And ȝede a-bowte in my ȝouthe and ȝaf me to no þedom.

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c. 1430.  How the Good Wife, etc., 209. (Babees Bk., 47). Now þrift and þeedom mote þou haue.

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1522.  World & Child, in Hazl., Dodsley, I. 261. My thedom is near past.

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  b.  Evil theedom, ill success, bad luck: used as a maledictory phrase.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Shipman’s T., 405. What! yuel thedam [v.r. thedom] on his Monkes snowte.

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c. 1450.  Cov. Myst., xiv. (Shaks. Soc.), 139. Evyl Thedom com to thi snowte!

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