worthen
See also: Worthen
English
Verb
worthen (third-person singular simple present worthens, present participle worthening, simple past and past participle worthened)
- (transitive, intransitive) To give worth to; value; make or become worth or worthy; appraise.
- 1894, George Egerton, Discords:
- Woman has cheapened herself body and soul through ignorant innocence, she must learn to worthen herself by all-seeing knowledge.
- 1898, George Egerton, The wheel of God:
- Then one day — God! how that day worthens all the other days! — he took me, and told me that he loved me — me, poor, plain, ignorant, ugly [...]
- 1968, Bit International:
- Others however, have been retained and even worthened.
- 1894, George Egerton, Discords:
Etymology 2
From worth (“to become”).
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