markworthy

From mark +‎ -worthy. Compare German merkwürdig (“strange, odd”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɑːkˈwɜːði/

markworthy (comparative more markworthy, superlative most markworthy)

1. (dated, rare) Worthy of note or remark.

   Synonyms: eminent, noteworthy, remarkable; see also Thesaurus:notable

   The scholar found something markworthy while reading the Bible for the eighth time.

   • 1858, William Barnes, “Food of the Britons”, in Notes on Ancient Britain and the Britons, London: John Russell Smith, page 3:

     That the ancient Britons eat of the nuts and berries and other fruits which were borne by the more wooded land of their time, we may well believe, and a markworthy proof of it was many years ago afforded in the neighbourhood of Dorchester.

   • 1888 June, “Recent American Fiction”, in The Atlantic‎:

     In character-drawing, Mr. Cable does not surpass his Bonaventure, but the cunning of his art when applied to incident and description is quite as markworthy in the latter as in the earlier part of the book.

   • 1913, Theodore Roosevelt, “In Cowboy Land”, in An Autobiography, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 137:

     Another complained that his mother-in-law had put him in jail for bigamy. In the case of another the incident was more markworthy. I will call him Gritto.

   • 1922, Emily F. Murphy, “International Rings”, in The Black Candle, Toronto: Thomas Allen, page 184:

     Indeed, in communicating with the Chiefs-of-Police in the United States concerning the ravages of drug-intoxication, it was markworthy that those bearing German names were especially prompt and thorough in reply to my enquiries, and in making suggestions as to the applications of practical remedies.

• “markworthy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.