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Worth   /wərθ/   Listen
noun
Worth  n.  
1.
That quality of a thing which renders it valuable or useful; sum of valuable qualities which render anything useful and sought; value; hence, often, value as expressed in a standard, as money; equivalent in exchange; price. "What 's worth in anything But so much money as 't will bring?"
2.
Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth. "To be of worth, and worthy estimation." "As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well." "To think how modest worth neglected lies."
Synonyms: Desert; merit; excellence; price; rate.


verb
Worth  v. i.  To be; to become; to betide; now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases. "I counsel... to let the cat worthe." "He worth upon (got upon) his steed gray."


adjective
Worth  adj.  
1.
Valuable; of worthy; estimable; also, worth while. (Obs.) "It was not worth to make it wise."
2.
Equal in value to; furnishing an equivalent for; proper to be exchanged for. "A ring he hath of mine worth forty ducats." "All our doings without charity are nothing worth." "If your arguments produce no conviction, they are worth nothing to me."
3.
Deserving of; in a good or bad sense, but chiefly in a good sense. "To reign is worth ambition, though in hell." "This is life indeed, life worth preserving."
4.
Having possessions equal to; having wealth or estate to the value of. "At Geneva are merchants reckoned worth twenty hundred crowns."
Worth while, or Worth the while. See under While, n.





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... "Not that it's worth while to have everything in such spick-and-span order," said Patty to herself, "for the Barlows won't appreciate it, and what's more they'll turn everything inside out and upside down before they've been ...
— Patty at Home • Carolyn Wells
... Of the other partners, Jan Jansen Damen, Jacob Wolfertsz van Couwenhoven, and Martin Cregier were among the leading citizens of New Amsterdam. The total venture seems to have been about 14,000 gulden, say $5600 (worth ...
— Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period - Illustrative Documents • Various
... sacraments, or even in the sacraments themselves, for producing the sacramental effects. This, as was shown above (Q. 62, A. 1), is both contrary to the teachings of the saints, and detracts from the dignity of the sacraments of the New Law. Hence, since this sacrament is of greater worth than the others, as stated above (Q. 65, A. 3), the result is that there is in the words of the form of this sacrament a created power which causes the change to be wrought in it: instrumental, however, as in the other sacraments, as stated above (Q. 62, AA. 3, 4). For since these words are ...
— Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) - From the Complete American Edition • Thomas Aquinas
... have gone with me, Cecilia," papa began, "it is worth seeing. I found some blocks of granite exactly the size ...
— Berties Home - or, the Way to be Happy • Madeline Leslie
... over her face. I think it came across her that my heart was wavering. "God knows that I, Hugo Gottfried, am not worth all this!" ...
— Red Axe • Samuel Rutherford Crockett


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