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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
  • WORTHFUL
    Full of worth; worthy; deserving. Marston.
  • PAINSTAKER
    One who takes pains; one careful and faithful in all work. Gay.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • PAINS
    Labor; toilsome effort; care or trouble taken; -- plural in form, but used with a singular or plural verb, commonly the former. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your
  • PAINSTAKING
    Careful in doing; diligent; faithful; attentive. "Painstaking men." Harris.
  • 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
  • PAINSWORTHY
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  • PRAISEWORTHINESS
    The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • 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.
  • EPWORTH LEAGUE
    A religious organization of Methodist young people, founded in 1889 at Cleveland, Ohio, and taking its name from John Wesley's birthplace, Epworth, Lincolnshire, England.
  • STALWORTHHOOD; STALWORTHNESS
    The quality or state of being stalworth; stalwartness; boldness; daring.

 

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