Meaning of gooden | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To make good; improve; better; perfect.
   transitive
2. To perambulate, usually town to town, collecting alms, gifts, or small gratuities before Christmas-time, usually on St. Thomas's Day.
   dialectal, intransitive
3. To become good.
   intransitive
4. To grow; improve; prosper.
   UK, dialectal, intransitive

Examples

“For many years we have⟳ endeavored to comprehend how a/b could transform⟳ highly intelligent and in many respects 'model⟳' girls and women (and sometimes boys and men) into unwitting bystanders and accomplices to their own⟳ torture and impending death while remaining convinced that they are being perfected and goodened?”

“The passive voice is all-pervasive. This is a world in which virtue is achieved by not doing things, only thus, like⟳ Jesus (Wright tells us) may we “be Goodened with Good.”

“Phoebe, in support⟳ of a good old Sussex custom, regularly, on St. Thomas's Day, December 21st, went out "Goodening," visiting well-to-do parishioners, to gossip upon the past, over hot elderberry wine and plum cake, and to receive⟳ doles, either in money or materials, [...]”

“In 1899 the oldest dame who took part in the ceremony was aged ninety-three, while in 1904 a widow "goodened" for the thirtieth year in succession.”

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