Meanings
plural worthynesses
- countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of worthiness.
I could not finde any man for whose name this booke was more agreable for hope [of] protection, more mete for submission to iudgement, nor more due for respect of worthynesse of your part and thankefulnesse of my husbandes and myne.
1570, Margaret Ascham, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster, foreword
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