Vocabulary : Worthy to Would-be

Worthy : Having worth or excellence; possessing merit; valuable; deserving; estimable; excellent; virtuous. ;; Having suitable, adapted, or equivalent qualities or value; -- usually with of before the thing compared or the object; more rarely, with a following infinitive instead of of, or with that; as, worthy of, equal in excellence, value, or dignity to; entitled to; meriting; -- usually in a good sense, but sometimes in a bad one. ;; Of high station; of high social position. ;; A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. ;; To render worthy; to exalt into a hero.
Wost : 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Wot : of Weet ;; of Wit ;; 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know. See the Note under Wit, v.
Wotest : Alt. of Wottest
Woteth : Alt. of Wotteth
Wottest : 2d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Wotteth : 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.
Woul : To howl.
Would : of Will ;; Commonly used as an auxiliary verb, either in the past tense or in the conditional or optative present. See 2d & 3d Will. ;; See 2d Weld.
Would-be : Desiring or professing to be; vainly pretending to be; as, a would-be poet.
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