careworthy

comparative more careworthy · superlative most careworthy

1. alternativeAlternative form of care-worthy.

   Give these very Irish men and women something to make life decent and careworthy; give each family three acres of land, and the English Government will cure this wretched and debasing incontinence.

   1881 January 31, Eltchi [pseudonym], “Rich and Poor in Britain […]”, in The Chicago Daily Tribune, volume XL, Chicago, Ill.: Tribune Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2, column 4

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   But perhaps the most neglected and yet most careworthy building was the isolated stone-roofed oratory at Louth, which was associated with curious legends, and was, as an architectural edifice, one of the few of its class now remaining.

   1904 July, John Ribton Garstin, “Inaugural Address”, in Journal of the County of Louth Archæological Society, volume I, number 1, Dundalk, County Louth; Drogheda, County Louth: […] [F]or the Society by W[illiam] Tempest, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11

   The flip side is that when a transgressor doesn’t seem safe, or valuable, or careworthy, people will be naturally inclined to favor the alternatives to forgiveness—revenge being chief among them.

   2008, Michael E[arl] McCullough, “Activating the Forgiveness Instinct”, in Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct, San Francisco, Calif.: Jossey-Bass, →ISBN, chapter 7 (The Forgiving Brain), page 155