good work

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Noun

good work (plural good works)

  1. (Christianity, chiefly in the plural) A person's beneficent action or deed, especially one of a charitable nature that advances one's progress toward salvation.
    • 1859, Charles Kingsley, chapter 3, in The Good News of God:
      [E]verlasting life . . . must be a righteous and just life; a loving and merciful life; for God is righteous, just, loving, merciful; and more, it must be an useful life, a life of good works.
    • 1910, Jeffery Farnol, chapter 27, in The Broad Highway:
      "Truth, sir, is that which can never pass away; the Truth of Life is Good Works, which abide everlastingly."
    • 2009 Feb. 22, Bonnie Rochman, "Why Catholic Indulgences Are Making a Comeback," Time (retrieved 15 Aug 2014):
      "The church's teaching has evolved," Walsh says. "Part of indulgences is not just saying special prayers, but also doing good works."

References

  • “good work”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
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