Word Meanings - IMMERIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of worth; demerit. Suckling.

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• WORTH
  1. That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. What 's worth in
• WORTHWHILE
  Worth the time or effort spent. See worth while. worthy. -- worthwhileness.
• WORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth. Who is sure he hath a soul, unless It see, and judge, and follow worthiness Donne. She is not worthy to be loved that hath not some feeling of her
• SUCKLING
  1. A young child or animal nursed at the breast. 2. A small kind of yellow clover common in Southern Europe.
• WORTHFUL
  Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
• WORTHY
  worthi, wurÞi, from worth, wurÞ, n.; cf. Icel. verthugr, D. waardig, 1. Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. Full worthy was he in his lordes war. Chaucer. These banished men that
• SUCKLE
  A teat. Sir T. Herbert.
• DEMERIT
  demerit , fr. L. demerere to deserve well, LL., to 1. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, acquired this reputation. Holland. 2. That which deserves
• SUCKLER
  An animal that suckles its young; a mammal.
• WORTHILY
  In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly. You worthily succeed not only to the honors of your ancestors, but also to their virtues. Dryden. Some may very worthily deserve to be hated. South.
• WORTHLESS
  Destitute of worth; having no value, virtue, excellence, dignity, or the like; undeserving; valueless; useless; vile; mean; as, a worthless garment; a worthless ship; a worthless man or woman; a worthless magistrate. 'T is a worthless world to win
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• HONEYSUCKLE
  One of several species of flowering plants, much admired for their beauty, and some for their fragrance. Note: The honeysuckles are properly species of the genus Lonicera; as, L. Caprifolium, and L. Japonica, the commonly cultivated fragrant kinds;
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.
• PENNYWORTH
  1. A penny's worth; as much as may be bought for a penny. "A dear pennyworth." Evelyn. 2. Hence: The full value of one's penny expended; due return for money laid out; a good bargain; a bargain. The priests sold the better pennyworths. Locke. 3.
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
• SEAWORTHINESS
  The state or quality of being seaworthy, or able to resist the ordinary violence of wind and weather. Kent.
• DEARWORTH
  Precious. Piers Plowman.
• SEAWORTHY
  Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
• UNWORTH
  Unworthy. Milton.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• OUTWORTH
  To exceed in worth.