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worthynesse

worthynesse is the obsolete spelling of worthiness.

Meaning of worthiness

Noun

worthiness (countable and uncountable, plural worthinesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of having value or merit.
    • But, unlike the generality of her age, love now occupied no place in the future. How could she ever believe in the worthiness of any one? or, if she believed, it could never so interest her again.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, pages 15-16
  2. (countable) The result or product of having value or merit.
  3. (uncountable) The state or quality of being qualified or eligible.
  4. (countable) The result or product of being qualified or eligible.

Forms of worthynesse

pluralworthynesses

Questions about worthynesse

What is worthynesse the obsolete spelling of?
Worthynesse is the obsolete spelling of worthiness.

Words near worthynesse in the dictionary

  1. worthwile
  2. worthy
  3. worthying
  4. worthyman
  5. worthymen
  6. worthynesse
  7. worthynesses
  8. Worting
  9. Wortley
  10. Wortleys
  11. wortlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: worthynesse (page history and authors); worthiness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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