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  • Worthiness is not a word I would use in the context of blair, it suggests that he in some way possess's a degree of such an admirable quality

    Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister? 2010

  • Worthiness is a thing different from the worth or value of a man, and also from his merit or desert, and consisteth in a particular power or ability for that whereof he is said to be worthy; which particular ability is usually named fitness, or aptitude.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Worthiness was often based on what you were willing to offer.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • Worthiness was often based on what you were willing to offer.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • Worthiness was often based on what you were willing to offer.

    Angels of a Lower Flight Susie Scott Krabacher 2007

  • To Bernard the infant's spiritual kin were not the godparents but the Church, in its maternal role, and a fraternal Christ, who in Bernard's antiheresy writings appeared as a young child explicitly compared to the infant at the font (see "Exceptions Prove the Rule: The Worthiness of Children" in section 3, below).

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • This was after the vote on the document on Worthiness to Receive the Eucharist was passed.

    Watching the Bishops' Conference Argent 2006

  • ” (“Your Most Exalted Worthiness” would also do, I suppose.)

    IsThatLegal? 2003

  • Let me take this opportunity to point out that, henceforward, I must be addressed as HWW Her Webby Worthiness.

    Madame G 2005

  • Andrew Greeley's August 10, 2004 New York Daily News article titled "Catholics can vote for Kerry," which misrepresents what Cardinal Ratzinger states in his memorandum entitled “Worthiness to Receive Holy Communion – General Principles.”

    Bishop Bruskewitz Cooks Greeley's Goose 2004

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