Careful Words

worthy (n.)

worthy (adj.)

  It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.

Mathew Henry (1662-1714): Commentaries. Timothy i.

And the stern joy which warriors feel

In foemen worthy of their steel.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Lady of the Lake. Canto v. Stanza 10.

And you must love him, ere to you

He will seem worthy of your love.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): A Poet's Epitaph. Stanza 11.

  Of whom the world was not worthy.

New Testament: Hebrews xi. 38.