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English
Etymology
rope + -worthy
Adjective
rope-worthy (comparative more rope-worthy, superlative most rope-worthy)
- (obsolete) Deserving of being hanged.
1834, Walter Savage Landor, Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, pages 275–276; republished in The Works of Walter Savage Landor, volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, 1846:To pass over and pretermit the danger of representing the actionds of the others, and mainly of lawyers and churchmen […] canst thou believe it innocent to counterfeit kings and queens? Supposest thou that if the impression of their faces on a farthing be felonious and rope-worthy, the imitation of head and body, voice and bearing, plume and strut, crown and mantle, and everything else that maketh them royal and glorious, be aught less?
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