Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Lovable; fitted to inspire love.
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Examples
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She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.
A Different Stripe: 2010
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She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.
"One could love her for the only sufficient reason that one chose to." 2010
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The heroine helps him see he's love-worthy despite his rough edges.
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She offered nothing that Sophia had been brought up to consider as love-worthy or estimable, for what good qualities she had must be accepted with their opposites, in an inconsequential pell-mell of wheat and tares.
Commonplace 2010
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Not only do we share her love of what she presents to us, we begin to see the love-worthy bits of life's art we unattentively pass by every day.
Cherie Louise Turner: Maira Kalman at the Contemporary Jewish Museum: A Life as Art Cherie Louise Turner 2010
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No great heroes with impressive talents, no hyperpowerful magicians, no superbad antagonists, no generation-spanning prophecies, no sly yet love-worthy thieves, no superhuman assassins, no soul-related wolves, kites, dwarves or other races.
In Gordath Wood: Writer Patrice Sarath » A German review — from Amazon.de 2009
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But did you ever know a right-minded woman pardon another for being handsome and more love-worthy than herself?
Burlesques 2006
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When she came to him, if she ever came, it must be because she found something in him that was love-worthy.
The Trumpeter Swan Temple Bailey
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Some of the best and most honored women I know were poor girls, but so love-worthy that they were not allowed to be old maids.
Little Women 1921
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He loved as only a twin can love -- proud of all that Sweyn did, content with all that Sweyn was; humbly content also that his own great love should not be so exceedingly returned, since he knew himself to be so far less love-worthy.
The Were-Wolf Clemence Housman 1912
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