Adjective : a praiseworthy motive. From Dictionary.com.
The firing ceased immediately, the American's boats were launched, and every effort praiseworthily made to save the sinking crew. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
I intend, to-day, dear M., to be as disagreeably statistical and as praiseworthily matter-of-factish as the most dogged utilitarian could desire. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
But certainly the author did this not less praiseworthily than wisely, that he might here, by implication, touch upon the origin of that famous family, and might give a merited fame and praise to this most worthy woman. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 43, May, 1861 Creator] Reference
“Mind you, the locals are adopting a praiseworthily Greek attitude toward sinking their precious town funds into that vast sybaritic eyesore-they're planning on renting it for huge sums to all sorts of would-be potentates after Antonius has moved on.”. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
George Thompson, Esq., is the distinguished traveler and faithful friend of the slave, known in America as a Garrisonian Abolitionist; and J. Lyons Macleod, Esq., the indefatigable British Consul who so praiseworthily exerted himself, and brought the whole of his official power to bear against the slave-trade on the Mozambique Channel. From Wordnik.com. [Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party] Reference
Some of our brethren have acted laudably and praiseworthily in this business. From Wordnik.com. [Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.] Reference
‘praiseworthily’, derived will by the same inflexion from ‘the praiseworthy’ whereby ‘justly’ is derived from ‘justice’. From Wordnik.com. [Topics] Reference
With this protected of web designer jobs, a frivolity can aberdare a praiseworthily iran equably cypripedia or not they individualisation the war. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Farrington's company, speak no syllable of your news, since it is not convenient that a lady so thoroughly and so praiseworthily -- Lord, Lord, how I have fattened!. From Wordnik.com. [Chivalry] Reference
The three came, accompanied by other influential persons, among whom were some Augustinian, Dominican, and Jesuit religious, all of whom served in their ministry praiseworthily. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 16 of 55 1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
Now that Mr Fox Talbot has so praiseworthily given up his patent right to Talbotypes, except in the matter of portraits, the art of photography will find itself stimulated to yet further developments; and with free practice, many new applications of it will be discovered. From Wordnik.com. [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852] Reference
She wished ” and praiseworthily ” to be Burton's wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton]
She wished — and praiseworthily — to be Burton’s wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
"was moved greatly to like Demosthenes above all others, for that he saw him so familiarly applying himself to the sense and understanding of the common people, that he sticked not to say that none ever was more fit to make an Englishman tell his tale praiseworthily in any open hearing either in parliament or in pulpit or otherwise, than this only orator was.". From Wordnik.com. [Early Theories of Translation] Reference
She wished -- and praiseworthily -- to be Burton's wife. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Then, my friend, Signor Logarini, of the police, who has been most praiseworthily active in the matter, has discovered that the old friar, who has the charge of the Basilica, and who is a Venetian, was connected with the parents of this girl, which renders it extremely probable that he may wish to screen her; and that fact, taken in conjunction with the very strong reasons we have to think that the friar has some knowledge of the deed, and his very manifest reluctance to tell what he knows, seems to point in the same direction. ". From Wordnik.com. [A Siren] Reference
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