| 释义 |
loveworthy, a.|ˈlʌvwɜːðɪ|
[f. love n.1 + worthy a.]
Worthy to be loved.
a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 269 Inwið þe ane arn alle þe þinges igedered þat eauer muhen maken ani mon luuewurði to oðer. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 289 Neræna, the most loue-worthy of her sex. 1633W. Struther True Happiness 31 If these small goods be love-worthy, with what a love should we adhere to the fountain-good. 1867Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 278 It may happen..that..the child makes the painful discovery that the person whom it most tenderly loves is not loveworthy. 1880Swinburne Stud. Shaks. 227 A living god-garland of the noblest earth-born brothers and love-worthiest heaven-born sister.
Hence loveworthiness.
1867Thirlwall Lett. (1881) I. 278 The perception of His loveworthiness must tend to swallow up our sense of benefits received from him. 1899F. P. Cobbe in Daily News 27 May 7/1 The nobility and loveworthiness of human nature. |