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praiseworthy

adj
/ˈpɹeɪz.wɜː.ði/UK/ˈpɹeɪz.wɝ.ði/US

Etymology

From praise + -worthy.

  1. derived from pretiō
  2. derived from proisier
  3. inherited from praisen
  4. suffixed as praiseworthy — “praise + worthy”

Definitions

  1. Meriting praise

    Meriting praise; worthy of high praise

    • No self-complacency can equal that of the selfish. Not content with its indulgence, they actually idolise it into being praiseworthy.
    • That it is a praiseworthy matter to be harboursome to strangers.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at praiseworthy. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at praiseworthy. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at praiseworthy

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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