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well-spent, ppl. a.
1. Of time, life: Passed profitably and virtuously.
1534More Dial. Comfort iii. xvii. (1553) Q. viii b, The well spent time. 1662G. Wharton Cal. Carol. Feb. B 5 b, Who..laid down Their well spent Lives for Charles's Injur'd Crown. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 330 The constant tenour of whose well-spent days No less deserv'd a just return of praise. 1780Mirror No. 90 An old man, looking back on a well-spent life. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair lii, She beats all the women I have ever seen in the course of all my well⁓spent life.
2. Expended judiciously or to advantage.
1749B. Franklin Poor Richard (1890) 188 'T is a well spent penny that saves a groat. |