Worthly

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of).

    "It is not good to be alone, / to walk here in this worthely wone"

Etymology

From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik, Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh.

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