the Week of Proper 26 / Ordinary 31
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Worthy
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; - usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; - usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one.
(2):
(n.) Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous.
(3):
(n.) Of high station; of high social position.
(4):
(n.) A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; - much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies.
(5):
(v. t.) To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Worthy'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/w/worthy.html. 1828.
