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God⋅speed

  [god-speed]
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–noun
good fortune; success (used as a wish to a person starting on a journey, a new venture, etc.).
Origin:
1250–1300; ME, in the phrase God spede may God prosper (you). See God, speed
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God·speed   (gŏd'spēd')   
n.  Success or good fortune.

[From Middle English God spede (you), may God prosper (you) : God, god; see god + spede, third person sing. present subjunctive of speden, to prosper (from Old English spēdan, from spēd, success; see speed).]
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Godspeed

God"speed`\, n. Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.]

Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. --2 John 10.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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