"worthly" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

Forms: worthlier [comparative], more worthly [comparative], worthliest [superlative], most worthly [superlative]
Etymology: From Middle English worthely, wurthlich, from Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), from Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), equivalent to worth + -ly. Cognate with Old Frisian werdelik, Old Saxon werthlīk, Old High German werdlīh. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|worthely}} Middle English worthely, {{inh|en|ang|weorþlīċ|t=important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming}} Old English weorþlīċ (“important, valuable, splendid, worthy, estimable, honorable, distinguished, exalted, fit, becoming”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*werþalīkaz|t=worthy}} Proto-Germanic *werþalīkaz (“worthy”), {{af|en|worth|-ly|id2=adjectival}} worth + -ly, {{cog|ofs|werdelik}} Old Frisian werdelik, {{cog|osx|werthlīk}} Old Saxon werthlīk, {{cog|goh|werdlīh}} Old High German werdlīh Head templates: {{en-adj|er|more}} worthly (comparative worthlier or more worthly, superlative worthliest or most worthly)
  1. Having great worth or value; valuable; important; dignified; stately; excellent; worthy; deserving (of). Derived forms: worthliness, unworthly Related terms: worthy

Inflected forms

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          "english": "It is not good to be alone, to walk here in this noble world",
          "ref": "15th c., “[The Creation]”, in Wakefield Mystery Plays; Re-edited in George England, Alfred W. Pollard, editors, The Towneley Plays (Early English Text Society Extra Series; LXXI), London: […] Oxford University Press, 1897, →OCLC, page 6, lines 184–185:",
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