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deedworthy

adj

Etymology

From deed + -worthy.

  1. inherited from *dʰéh₁tis✻ — “deed, action”
  2. inherited from *dēdiz✻ — “deed”
  3. inherited from *dādi✻
  4. inherited from dēd
  5. inherited from dede
  6. suffixed as deedworthy — “deed + -worthy”

Definitions

  1. Worthy of (good) deeds.

    • The heat and the tempest which overwhelm the dainty voluptuaries, and are harmless to the deedworthy, express the true wisdom of virtue, even for this world, which moves not at our will; […]
    • These factors must be kept in mind in the planning of a system of bodily exercises for school use, if the result is to be a healthy, joyful, deedworthy generation.

  2. Worthy of being done.

    • […] standing at the head of them are those very general ideals which I have called the first and second; that of deedworthy conduct, or the 'faciendum,' and that of choiceworthy aim, or the 'bonum,' good.

  3. Worthy of having sex with.

    • That shortie over there is definitely deedworthy.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA