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1581 A. Munday Courtly Controuersie Ep. Ded. sig. A.ii To the Courteous, and woorthie minded Gentleman, Maister George Gifford, as also to the vertuous Gentlewoman his wife.

1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons f. 50^v (margin) No honorable nor worthie minded men.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 14 He is a worthy-hearted child.

1777 J. Adams 2 May in Warren-Adams Lett. (1917) I. 321 A worthy spirited sensible Man, a Native of Connecticutt.

1826 London Morning Post 18 Aug. The worthy spirited philanthropist had filled three bladders with Hodge's genuine extract.

1846 J. Gostick tr. J. W. von Goethe in Spirit German Poetry 42/1 They observed a worthy-looking old man approaching the scene of disturbance.

1856 N. Brit. Rev. 26 227 A worthy-minded parson of the old school.

1875 Ann. Rep. N.Y. Bible Soc. 14 In the same saloon, I gave it [sc. a Bible] to a worthy seeming young, colored man.

1926 Freeport (Illinois) Jrnl.-Standard 2 Aug. 4/2 No worthy spirited community can forget its origin.

1934 Advertiser (Adelaide) 22 Nov. 14/5 If every mistake is to be the first-and-final, a matter for the death penalty, only those can remain who either have never made a mistake..or who are less worthy-minded.

2005 Foreign Affairs 84 171/2 How should they allocate their charitable giving among the numerous worthy-sounding groups that aim to reduce poverty?