Past tense of 'guerdon': to have given a reward or payment to someone for their services or achievements.
Derived from the verb form of 'guerdon', with the '-ed' past tense suffix. The root 'guerdon' itself comes from Old French and has Germanic roots related to 'worth' and 'payment'.
Medieval writers loved this word because it sounds far more poetic than 'paid' or 'rewarded'—it appears in Shakespeare and earlier texts as a way to describe how nobility honored their followers.
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