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English
Etymology
From alder- + worst.
Adjective
alderworst (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Worst of all.
1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :You some permit / To second ills with ills, each elder worse, / And make them dread it, to the doers’ thrift.