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adjective

Worthy adj. (compar. worthier; superl. worthiest)

Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. "Full worthy was he in his lordes war." "These banished men that I have kept withal Are men endued with worthy qualities." "Happier thou mayst be, worthier canst not be." "This worthy mind should worthy things embrace."

Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one. "No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway." "The merciless Macdonwald, Worthy to be a rebel." "Whose shoes I am not worthy to bear." "And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know More happiness." "The lodging is well worthy of the guest."

Of high station; of high social position. (Obs.) "Worthy women of the town."

Worthiest of blood (Eng. Law of Descent), most worthy of those of the same blood to succeed or inherit; applied to males, and expressive of the preference given them over females.

noun

Worthy n. (pl. worthies) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. "The blood of ancient worthies in his veins."

verb

Worthy v. t. To render worthy; to exalt into a hero. (Obs.)

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"Worthy" Quotes from Famous Books

... for burning the cakes. I have lived on my Iowa farm from times of bleak wastes, robber bands, and savage primitiveness, to this day, when my state is almost as completely developed as Holland. If I have a pride in it, if I look back to those days as worthy of record, remember that I have some excuse. There will be no other generation of human beings with a life so rich in change and growth. And there never was such a thing in all the history of the ...

— Vandemark's Folly • Herbert Quick

... has he not, so far as you have known him, always proved a good, worthy fellow?" said Captain Delano, pausing, while with a final genuflexion the steward disappeared into the cabin; "come, for the reason just mentioned, I am ...

— The Piazza Tales • Herman Melville

... stranger. Aldobrand stepped gracefully forward, arranged the types without omission of a single letter, hyphen, or comma, imposed them without deranging a single space, and pulled off the first proof as clear and free from errors, as if it had been a triple revise! All applauded the worthy successor of the immortal Faustusthe blushing maiden acknowledged her error in trusting to the eye more than the intellectand the elected bridegroom thenceforward chose for his impress or device the appropriate words, Skill wins favour.'But ...

— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... if he might not catch Mr. Stitts in some such service as he boasted now, and his wit was worthy ...

— The Furnace of Gold • Philip Verrill Mighels

... successively promoted to the government of Maesia, the honors of the consulship, and the important command of the guards of the palace. He distinguished his abilities in the Persian war; and after the death of Numerian, the slave, by the confession and judgment of his rivals, was declared the most worthy of the Imperial throne. The malice of religious zeal, whilst it arraigns the savage fierceness of his colleague Maximian, has affected to cast suspicions on the personal courage of the emperor Diocletian. [3] It would not be easy to persuade us of the cowardice of a soldier of fortune, who acquired ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 1 • Edward Gibbon

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