rare. [See WHILE sb. 3 b, and WORTH a. 8.] The quality of being, or that which is, worth while.
1867. Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, ii. How did the world seem to such a person, and where was the worth-while of it?
1899. Westm. Gaz., 3 Aug., 2/1. The pursuit of the worth-while.
