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flameworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From flame + -worthy.

Meanings

1. Deserving of being subjected to or engulfed by flames
   • When Lord Worcester — shrewd fellow, — hinted at steam and gas, he was scouted by the gossips as presumptuous; yea, and so were Lord Liverpool and Mr. Winsor; Socrates and Galileo were most flameworthy heretics, for having seen certain truths too soon; […] 1851, Martin Farquhar Tupper, The Complete Works of Martin F. Tupper in Four Volumes, page 216:

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