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worthly

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Adj — (old-fashioned) Of great value or importance; deserving respect.

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Traces back through Middle English worthely, wurthlich, to Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), and further to Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”); it is equivalent to worth + -ly. It is cognate with Old Frisian werdelik, Old Saxo...

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