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- adjective Archaic spelling of
worthy .
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Examples
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August 23, 2009 at 12:18 pm gud 4 U! itz a cyoot pixture and kapshun…worthie of fruntpayge.
U no ur a kitteh person wen… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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Oh nŏ nŏ, worthie shephērd, worth cān never enter a title; are too alien from ordinary pronunciation to please either an average reader or a classically trained student.
Poems and Fragments 2006
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Thei thought it fondenes in the Grekes, worthie to be laughed at, to imagine goddes to be sprong vp of menne.
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Emongest all the lawes of that people I note this chiefly as worthie memorie.
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For seing the whole processe ronneth vpon gouernaunce and Lawes, for thadministracion of commune wealthes, in peace and in warre, of aunciente times tofore our greate graundfathers daies: to whom mighte I bettre presente it, then to a Lorde of verie nobilitie and wisedome, that hath bene highe Mareshalle in the field abrode, deputie of the locke and keie of this realme, and a counsailour at home, of thre worthie princes.
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Thei nestled first vpon the floude Araxis so fewe in nombre and so base: that no manne thought theim worthie the troublyng or talkyng of.
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On the same day, when she devised this peece of service, a man was buried in Pistoya, and in the Church-yard belonging unto the gray Friars, who being descended of good and worthie parentage: yet himselfe was very infamous, and reputed to be the vilest man living, not onely there in Pistoya, but throughout the whole World beside.
The Decameron 2004
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Yet haue thei this one praise worthie propretie, that if he fortune to finde them at meate: thei neither shutte the doore against hym, ne thruste him out, if he be disposed to eate, but charitably bidde them, and parte with them suche as thei haue.
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Their manners are partly prayse-worthie, and partly detestable: For they are more obedient vnto their lords and masters, then any other either clergie or laie-people in the whole world.
The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004
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Their chiefe occupation is to attende vpon goddes seruice, settinge forthe the worthie diedes of the goddes, with himpnes,27 and many kindes of commendacion.
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