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Disherison vs Unworth - What's the difference?

disherison | unworth |

As nouns the difference between disherison and unworth

is that disherison is the act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance while unworth is unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.

As an adjective unworth is

(obsolete) unworthy or unworth can be not worth; not deserving of.

disherison

English

Noun

  • The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance.
    • (Bishop Hall)
    (Webster 1913)

    unworth

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) unworth, unwurth, equivalent to .

    Noun

    (-)
  • Unworthiness; unworthliness; worthlessness.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1850, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Latter-Day Pamphlets, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Woe to the People that no longer venerates, as the emblem of God himself, the aspect of Human Worth; that no longer knows what human worth and unworth is! }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1917, author=Eugene Manlove Rhodes, title=Copper Streak Trail, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=As the lawyer unfolded his plan the partner-clerk, as a devotee of cunning, found himself convicted of comparative unworth ; with every sentence he deported himself less like Pelman the partner, shrank more and more to Joey the devil clerk. }}
  • *1989 , Richard Paul Janaro, Thelma C. Altshuler, The art of being human: the humanities as a technique for living :
    • Feeling a sense of unworth , we kill ourselves in a number of ways.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) unworthy
    • (Milton)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) unworth, unwurth, from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not worth; not deserving of.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Paul Leicester Ford, title=The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This was rather pleasant, for she had to give Peter her hand, and so life became less unworth living to Peter. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=John Lang and Jean Lang, title=Stories of the Border Marches, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=That would be something not unworth boasting about--that he, a sort of eighteenth-century David, should slay this modern Goliath. }}