One who does well; one who lives virtuously or acts uprightly.
c. 1450. Mirk’s Festial, 1. To bryng … weldoers to þe blys þat euer schall last.
1530. Palsgr., Ep. to King, p. iv. Well doers in any kynde of vertue.
1648–58. Hexham, II. s.v. Wel, Een wel-doender, oft wel-dader, a Benefactour or a Well-doer.
1684. Contempl. St. Man, I. v. (1699), 51. Who is so general a well-doer, that no Body complains of him.
