praiseworthiness
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Hence Grossman’s remarks about Wood lacking the “language” to praise the book, as though the praiseworthiness of the book was ultimately a given.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 19, 2014
Especially if it’s an object or system with complex behaviors that are difficult to understand in purely mechanistic terms, we’ll attribute pretty much any entity with a range of humanlike properties including praiseworthiness and blameworthiness.
From Salon ● Mar. 6, 2013
But the very quality which enables us to do a noble deed dulls our appreciation of our own praiseworthiness.
From Bressant by Julian Hawthorne
There was nothing finer than continuously to come upon praiseworthiness in your friend!
From Foes by Mary Johnston
The pleasurable emotion of satisfaction arises later through habit and reflection; it accompanies the thought of the merit and praiseworthiness of the victory over self.
From Morals and the Evolution of Man by Max Simon Nordau
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