1. That does good or acquits oneself well; † valiant; diligent in performance of work or duty; well-behaved, respectable.
c. 1330. Arth. & Merl. (Kölbing), 4773. Four score … Hardi & wele doinde kniȝtes.
1597. Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 112. And controuersie hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his mannadg, by th’ wel doing Steed.
1612. T. Taylor, Comm. Titus ii. 1, 331. That his Master may find him doing, yea welldoing.
1822. Byron, Heaven & Earth, I. iii. I am safe, not for my own deserts, but those Of a well-doing sire, who hath been found Righteous enough to save his children.
1888. D. Grant, Sc. Stor., 76. Sic an honest, weel-daen woman as I kent my wife to be!
2. Sc. Well-to-do, prosperous, thriving.
1821. Galt, Ann. Parish, v. 59. He was a douce and discreet man, fair and well-doing in the world.
1897. ‘L. Keith,’ My Bonny Lady, vii. 67. ‘Do you know nothing of her folk?’ ‘Nothing, forby that they are well-doing in the world.’
