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Definition of Do good
1. Verb. Be beneficial for. "This will do you good"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Do Good
Literary usage of Do good
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"First that he do good, next that he do by election in his owne herte, and the
thirde that he do ... the like that han might to do good, and done it not, ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1902)
"This man should have said, "do good plowing to raise more corn, to feed more hogs
to buy more land," etc. Another reason for poor plowing is a dull plow. ..."
3. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. by James Boswell (1826)
"owing to their expressing themselves in a plain and familiar manner, which is
the only way to do good to the common people, and which clergymen of genius ..."
4. A Journal Or Historical Account of the Life, Travels, Sufferings, Christian by George Fox, William Penn, Margaret Askew Fell Fox (1839)
"... in your inward riches, and do good with both w you have a day to do good.
Your enemies would once have ta what you had from you for his name's sake in ..."
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