Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being worthy of love.
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Examples
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Not an indicator of physical fitness or determination or intelligence or love-worthiness.
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She cannot -- in a kind of terror -- she _will_ not, believe in her own love-worthiness, in her own power to deal a lasting wound.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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She cannot -- in a kind of terror -- she _will_ not, believe in her own love-worthiness, in her own power to deal a lasting wound.
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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There is only, as it were, room for love after benevolence has accomplished its end, in bringing the object into a state of wellbeing or love-worthiness.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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In its more special meaning it has been supposed [134] to imply not merely the going forth of good towards an object, but the meeting of good in that object, the term benevolence being used to express the love of that which in itself does not contain any love-worthiness.
Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator. 1823-1886 1855
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