WORTHY
\wˈɜːði], \wˈɜːði], \w_ˈɜː_ð_i]\
Definitions of WORTHY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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word is often used humorously
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morally admirable; "a worthy citizen"
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meriting respect or esteem; "the worthy gentleman"
By Princeton University
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word is often used humorously
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morally admirable; "a worthy citizen"
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meriting respect or esteem; "the worthy gentleman"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
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Of high station; of high social position.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
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Of high station; of high social position.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
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Having value or excellence; meriting; fit.
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A person of importance.
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Worthily.
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Worthiness.
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Worthier.
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Worthiest.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Worthiness.
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Having worth: valuable: deserving: suited to: (B.) deserving (either of good or bad).
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A man of eminent worth:-pl. WORTHIES.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Deserving, such as merits; having worth or excellence; virtuous; estimable; suitable; having qualities suited to; equal in value; suitable to anything bad; deserving of ill; well-founded.
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A man of eminent worth; a man distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a local celebrity. The nine worthies of the world, Hector of Troy. Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, Joshua, David and Judas Maccabaeus, King Arthur, Charlemagne and Godfrey of Bouillon.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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HEREDITAMENTS
- Tilings capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal,real, personal, mixed, and including not only lands everything thereon, but alsolieir-looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir togetherwith (he land. Co. Litt. 5b; 2 Bl. Comm. 17; Nell is v. Munson, 108 N. Y. 453, 15 E.730; Owens Lewis, 40 Ind. 508, Am. Rep. 205; Whitlock Greacen. 4S J. Eq.350. 21 Atl. 944; Mitchell Warner, 5 Conn. 407; New York Mabie, 13 150, 04Am. Dec. 53S. Estates. Anything capable of being inherited, be it corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, mixed and including not only lands everything thereon, but also heir looms, certain furniture which, by custom, may descend to the heir, together with land. Co. Litt. 5 b; 1 Tho. 219; 2 Bl. Com. 17. this term such things are denoted, as subject-matter inheritance, inheritance itself; cannot therefore, its own intrinsic force, enlarge an estate, prima facie a life into fee. B. & P. 251; 8 T. R. 503; 219, note Hereditaments are divided into corporeal and incorporeal. confined to lands. (q. v.) Vide Incorporeal hereditaments, Shep. To. 91; Cruise's Dig. tit. 1, s. 1; Wood's Inst.221; 3 Kent, Com. 321; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; 1 Chit. Pr. 203-229; 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1595, et seq.