Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Unworthy; little worth. Milton, Tetrachordon.
  • noun Unworthiness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Unworthiness.
  • adjective obsolete Unworthy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
  • adjective Not worth; not deserving of.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English unworth, unwurth, equivalent to un- +‎ worth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English unworth, unwurth, from Old English unweorþ, unweorþe ("unworthy, poor, mean, of low estate, worthless, contemptible, ignoble"), equivalent to un- +‎ worth.

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Examples

  • As I prayed I strove to quest back in my life and cast a hurried tally-sheet of my own worth and unworth.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • As I prayed I strove to quest back in my life and cast a hurried tally-sheet of my own worth and unworth.

    Chapter 19 2010

  • This means that we will always have an inclination to have slopey shoulders, because to accept our responsibility for a wrong feels like a confirmation of our essential unworth - it feels like destruction of our identity.

    The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006

  • And, as of today, I have a shiny new cell phone complete with a camera hee! with only one slight, tiny, almost unworth mentioning flaw -- I have to call from another phone to activate it.

    NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! mariness 2007

  • Later my mother bought it for me. the next day my dad bought me that same case i wanted .... that is what I am talking about I get what I want in the end but the process makes it completely unworth it ...

    x4getregretx Diary Entry x4getregretx 2007

  • As to _Inglebury_ and _Mary_, the causes of all the pother, they struck me as conspicuously unworth so much fussing over; and, when their final flight together landed them -- well, where it did, I could only feel that the neighbourhood was to be congratulated.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 Various

  • That would be something not unworth boasting about -- that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath.

    Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang

  • What kindness, I say to myself, even if it be mistaken kindness, must have sealed those dear lips not to tell me of my unworth!

    An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous

  • The whole "trial" was unworth of the name – it was a device whereby Mrs. Brailsford and I should be separated from the others and treated with more respect, I having been the only one to do a glaring act and an, apparently, harmful or greatly risky one.

    Prisons and Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences 1914

  • Yet still, while the years passed, he waited, -- listening -- listening -- listening; a kindly, simple old man with mystical brown eyes, believing meekly in his own unworth to hear again that Sound from Heaven, as of a rushing, mighty wind, that had filled the London Chapel, bowing human souls before it as a great wind bows the standing corn!

    The Voice 1912

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