Definitions
Etymologies
- dear + worth (Wiktionary)
Examples
“‘aftercomer’ for descendant; ‘greatdoingly’ for magnificently; ‘to afterthink’ (still in use in Lancashire) for to repent; ‘medeful’, which has given way to meritorious; ‘untellable’ for ineffable; ‘dearworth’ for precious; Chaucer has ‘forword’ for promise; Sir John Cheke”
“3.35.62: A dearworth dame, they thought theyr coomfort gone.”
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More Adjectival Arcana
List of adjectives such as everduring that do not frequent common speech and writing. A continuation of my list Adjectival Arcana, which had grown to over 7700 words and had become far too cumbersome.
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Miscellany, pt. d
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she adj., precious (also derworth; obsolete; from Piers Plowman, a 14th century poem by William Langland) Jun 29, 2008