Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Praiseworthy.
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Landívar, who, expelled from Spaion by the cruel edict of 1767, came to the New World and there anticipated Bello's Georgic composition with his Latin "Rusticatio Mexicana" which in diction and terms of description presents praiseworth pictures of Central-American rustic life as he saw it.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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George Carew had written to Cecil on June 30: 'Sir Walter Ralegh's service was so much praiseworth as those which were formerly his enemies do now hold him in great estimation; for that which he did in the sea service could not be bettered.'
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Yesterday, I finally re-installed the always-praiseworth mutt address book with addex.
Planet Perl 2009
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