What is the difference between worthy and advice?
worthy | advice |
having worth, merit or value
* Shakespeare
* Sir J. Davies
honourable or admirable
deserving, or having sufficient worth
Suited; befitting.
* Shakespeare
* Bible, Matthew iii. 11
* Milton
* Dryden
a distinguished or eminent person
To render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.
* 1880 , Sir Norman Lockyer, Nature :
* 1908 , Edward Arthur Brayley Hodgetts, The court of Russia in the nineteenth century :
* 1910 , Charles William Eliot, The Harvard classics: Beowulf :
An opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.
(obsolete) Deliberate consideration; knowledge.
Information or notice given; intelligence; as, late advices from France; commonly in the plural. In commercial language, advice usually means information communicated by letter; used chiefly in reference to drafts or bills of exchange; as, a letter of advice.
(legal) Counseling to perform a specific illegal act.
(computing, programming) In aspect-oriented programming, the code whose execution is triggered when a join point is reached.
As nouns the difference between worthy and advice
is that worthy is a distinguished or eminent person while advice is an opinion recommended or offered, as worthy to be followed; counsel.As a adjective worthy
is having worth, merit or value.As a verb worthy
is to render or treat as worthy; exalt; revere; honour; esteem; respect; value; reward; adore.worthy
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) worthy, wurthi, from (etyl) *.Adjective
(er)- These banished men that I have kept withal / Are men endued with worthy qualities.
- This worthy' mind should ' worthy things embrace.
- No, Warwick, thou art worthy of the sway.
- whose shoes I am not worthy to bear.
- And thou art worthy that thou shouldst not know / More happiness.
- The lodging is well worthy of the guest.
Derived terms
* worthily * worthinessNoun
(worthies)Etymology 2
From (etyl) worthien, wurthien, from (etyl) .Verb
- And put upon him such a deal of man, That worthied him, got praises of the king [...]'' — Shakespeare, ''King Lear .
- After having duly paid his addresses to it, he generally spends some time on the marble slab in front of the looking-glass, but without showing the slightest emotion at the sight of his own reflection, or worthying it with a song.
- And it is a poor daub besides," the Emperor rejoined scornfully, as he stalked out of the gallery without worthying the artist with a look.
- No henchman he worthied by weapons, if witness his features, his peerless presence!
Derived terms
* (l) * (l) ----advice
English
Noun
(en-noun)- We may give advice , but we can not give conduct. — Franklin.
- How shall I dote on her with more advice,''' That thus without '''advice begin to love her? — Shakespeare.
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