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needworthy en · ADJ

Etymology

From need + -worthy.

Meanings

1. (rare) Worthy of a particular need.
   • […] and disciplining the human mind by the substitution of life and intelligence (considered in its different powers, from the plant up to that state in which the difference of degree becomes a new kind – man, self-consciousness – but yet not by essential opposition), for the philosophy of mechanism which in everything that is needworthy of the human intellect strikes death, and cheats itself by mistaking clear images for distinct conceptions, and which idly demands conceptions where […] 2012, Duncan Wu, Romanticism: An Anthology:
   • In countries with poor macroeconomic conditions, including adverse business cycles and weak or compromised policy institutions, many creditworthy and need-worthy candidates are ineligible for credit they might be able to use effectively. 2004, Bertil Tungodden, Nicholas Herbert Stern, Nicholas Stern, Toward Pro-poor Policies: Aid, Institutions, and Globalization:
   • The dean's office has worked directly with these groups and has allocated funds to some needworthy students for obtaining special tutoring. 1975, Building Effective Minority Programs in Engineering Education: A Report:
   • It was to be from this day forward that one would quietly shrink back from all bonhomie but the most heartfelt and needworthy. 1994, James Patrick Donleavy, The history of The ginger man, page 513:

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