guerdon🔊

(now literary) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade.

💬 Quotations

"That will I do blithely," replied the Pilgrim, "and without guerdon; my oath, for a time, prohibits me from touching gold."

Walter Scott, Ivanhoe (1819)

You treat me like a slave, and bid me bow to my master! Is this the guerdon of a free maiden—is this the price of a life’s passion?

William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis (1850)

Melanie might have given him his new coat but this sash was her gift, her own secret guerdon for him to wear into battle, something that would make him remember her every time he looked at it.

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)

To give a reward to for a service.

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