Obs. Forms: 4 worþiliche, -lych, worthilyche; 4 worþili, worthily, -yly, 5 wurthyly, wordyly. [var. of WORTHLY a., after worthy.] Worthy, honorable.
13[?]. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 343. Wolde ȝe, worþilych lorde,… Bid me boȝe fro þis benche.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., A. 846. For-þy vche saule þat hade neuer teche, Is to þat lombe a worthyly wyf.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 1642. A! worþiliche wiȝt, wel wo is me nouþe!
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 695. Seyne that worthilyche wy went vn-to chambyre.
c. 1400. Anturs of Arth., 365 (Thornton MS.). Scho was the worthilieste wyghte, þat any wy myghte welde.
