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Meanings of unworthiness in English

Catalan
impropietat

The quality of being not particularly suitable or befitting.

      impropietat
      Catalan
      indignitat

      The quality or state of lacking merit or value.

            indignitat
            Usage of unworthiness in English
            1
            The penalty for overeagerness is the same as the penalty for unworthiness.
            The gunslinger
            2
            The bravery of her smile served to increase my sense of unworthiness.
            A Daughter of the Middle Border
            3
            But I fear I shall tear it up for its unworthiness afterward.
            The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
            4
            He never lost the consciousness of his own unworthiness, and therefore unholiness.
            Life of Luther
            5
            Then all at once a sense of his utter unworthiness overwhelmed him.
            The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
            6
            This sense of absolute unworthiness was always a feature of her life.
            Excellent Women
            7
            Eleanor clung to her-butwith a sharp sense of unfitness and unworthiness.
            Eleanor
            8
            I realize my unworthiness through my own consciousness, not through outside persuasion.
            The Bride of Dreams
            9
            I said, I feared nothing, I apprehended nothing, but my own unworthiness.
            Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
            10
            Mrs. Holbrook may have received some sudden revelation of her husband's unworthiness.
            Fenton's Quest
            11
            Grace's face grew hot with shame at her own unworthiness of spirit.
            Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College
            12
            I know my faults, my poverty, my unworthiness; but-but-mayI-may I hope?
            Godolphin, Volume 2.
            13
            Do you think I can make you so-I ,withall my unworthiness?
            Christian's Mistake
            14
            Oh, what an idealist it makes a man!-don'ttalk of your unworthiness.
            The Crown of Life
            15
            A hidden motive lurked in him; unworthiness somewhere; he was determined yet ashamed.
            Four Weird Tales
            16
            What comes with disgrace is unworthiness and that can come across really harsh.
            Radio NZ
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