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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

worthliness en · NOUN

Etymology

From worthly + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or condition of being worthly; valuableness; importance; stateliness; dignity; worthiness; excellence.
    • We confess it appears to us that knowledge of character, quick perception into the worth or worthliness of those about us, in no degree depends on, or can be governed by, any system or theory whatever. 1862, Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon, The British quarterly review:
    • Some undergraduates will advance while some graduates will retreat, so that in the end their worthliness may be cancelled in parallel lines. 1909, The Medical standard:

Deriveds

unworthliness