Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unworthy; little worth. Milton, Tetrachordon.
- noun Unworthiness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Unworthiness.
- adjective obsolete Unworthy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
Unworthiness ; unworthliness;worthlessness . - adjective Not
worth ; not deserving of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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As I prayed I strove to quest back in my life and cast a hurried tally-sheet of my own worth and unworth.
Chapter 19 2010
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As I prayed I strove to quest back in my life and cast a hurried tally-sheet of my own worth and unworth.
Chapter 19 2010
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This means that we will always have an inclination to have slopey shoulders, because to accept our responsibility for a wrong feels like a confirmation of our essential unworth - it feels like destruction of our identity.
The Stain of Sin Hal Duncan 2006
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And, as of today, I have a shiny new cell phone complete with a camera hee! with only one slight, tiny, almost unworth mentioning flaw -- I have to call from another phone to activate it.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! mariness 2007
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Later my mother bought it for me. the next day my dad bought me that same case i wanted .... that is what I am talking about I get what I want in the end but the process makes it completely unworth it ...
x4getregretx Diary Entry x4getregretx 2007
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As to _Inglebury_ and _Mary_, the causes of all the pother, they struck me as conspicuously unworth so much fussing over; and, when their final flight together landed them -- well, where it did, I could only feel that the neighbourhood was to be congratulated.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 Various
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That would be something not unworth boasting about -- that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath.
Stories of the Border Marches Jeanie Lang
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What kindness, I say to myself, even if it be mistaken kindness, must have sealed those dear lips not to tell me of my unworth!
An Englishwoman's Love-Letters Anonymous
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The whole "trial" was unworth of the name – it was a device whereby Mrs. Brailsford and I should be separated from the others and treated with more respect, I having been the only one to do a glaring act and an, apparently, harmful or greatly risky one.
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Yet still, while the years passed, he waited, -- listening -- listening -- listening; a kindly, simple old man with mystical brown eyes, believing meekly in his own unworth to hear again that Sound from Heaven, as of a rushing, mighty wind, that had filled the London Chapel, bowing human souls before it as a great wind bows the standing corn!
The Voice 1912
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