unworth
English
Etymology 1
From Middle English unworth, unwurth, equivalent to un- + worth.
Noun
unworth (uncountable)
- Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
- 1989, Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, The art of being human: the humanities as a technique for living:
- Feeling a sense of unworth, we kill ourselves in a number of ways.
Adjective
unworth (comparative more unworth, superlative most unworth)
- (obsolete) unworthy
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)
Etymology 2
From Middle English unworth, unwurth, from Old English unweorþ, unweorþe (“unworthy, poor, mean, of low estate, worthless, contemptible, ignoble”), equivalent to un- + worth.
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