godspeed means Used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the outcome of a person's actions be positive for them; typically said to someone who is about to start a journey or a daring endeavour. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why this word is great
GODSPEED — [Interjection] A parting salutation wishing one success and prosperity, especially on a journey or undertaking. It is the univerbation of the Middle English phrase 'God spede (you)', where 'spede' carries the archaic sense 'to prosper or cause to succeed'. Unlike “goodbye” (a general farewell stripped of its original benediction) or “bon voyage” (which confines its goodwill to the passage itself), “godspeed” is an active invocation of fortune for the entire endeavor ahead. It is the word spoken to the explorer boarding a wooden ship, the inventor bent over a half-formed machine, and the soldier stepping into the uncertain dark—a solitary syllable of hope, a fragile human coin cast into the future’s indifferent well.
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- Used, especially at a parting, to express the wish that the outcome of a person's actions be positive for them; typically said to someone who is about to start a journey or a daring endeavour.“3 [Citizen]. Neighbours, God ſpeed. / 1 [Citizen]. Giue you good morrovv ſir.”
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- The wishing of someone a smooth journey, or success, especially at a parting; (countable) a statement expressing this.“Yff there come eny vnto you and brynge not this learnynge⸝ hym receave not to houſſe: nether bid hym god ſpede. For he that biddeth hym God ſpede⸝ is part taker off his evyll dedes.”
- Chiefly in in the Godspeed of: the most important part of something, or point at which something happens; also, the last minute or last moment.“But a Devil came in juſt in the God-ſpeed, and told them; Gentlemen Philoſophers, (ſays he) if you vvould knovv the VVretched'ſt, and moſt contemptible thing in the VVorld; It is an Alchymiſt: […]”
- In back of Godspeed: a distant, remote, or unknown place.“If I don't leave you at the back of God-speed before long, I'll give you the mare and the horse too.”