rope-worthy en · ADJ
Etymology
From rope + -worthy.
Meanings
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(obsolete) Deserving of being hanged.
To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actionds of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen […] canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? Supposest thou that if the impression of their faces on a farthing be felonious and rope-worthy, the imitation of head and body, voice and bearing, plume and strut, crown and mantle, and everything else that maketh them royal and glorious, be aught less?
1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, pages 275–276; republished in The Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1846:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| most rope-worthy | Degree=Sup | lexicographic | |
| more rope-worthy | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic |