Definition
| • | Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. |
| • | Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one. |
| • | Of high station; of high social position. |
| • | A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. |
| • | To render worthy; to exalt into a hero. |
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