20 Verbs to Use for the Word unworthiness

In the first place, I confess my own unworthiness, and acknowledge, that I do not deserve one-half the kind attention I have received in these various presents, after which we will descend to particulars.

This is grave matter of the young Gradenigo, Signori!" "I have long known his unworthiness," returned his more aged colleague.

He did not affect unworthiness like Gregory in later years, but accepted at once the immense responsibility.

Once I knew a boy who was uglier than sin, and who wrote a storyin a sprawling hand and on ruled papera wonderful story, telling how an unlovely but admirable Knight, worshipping a Princess, rode out to win her by great deeds, and how when he came back triumphant, the sight of her brought his unworthiness home to him so that he dared not claim her.

And when Satan casts up his unworthiness and former sins, to keep him a-back or to discourage him, then he is called to lay hold on Christ as the great High Priest and Advocate, and casting that discouragement on him, to go forward.

There, too, is Evelyn Ramsay, before whose roguish loveliness, as you may remember, the colonel had snapped his fingers in those roseate days when he so joyously considered his profound unworthiness to be Patricia's husband.

When, as very generally happens, the external signs are reverenced, where they signify no internal worthinessnay, even where they cover internal unworthiness; then does the feeling become vicious.

Had Cinq-Mars been less aspiring than he was, it is probable that although yet a mere youth he would have shrunk with disgust from so humiliating a proposition; but he remembered the career of De Luynes, and he disregarded in the greatness of the end the unworthiness of the means by which it was to be obtained.

These Jeffersonian Republicans did indeed by their performance give the lie to their past promise, and thereby emphasize the unworthiness of their conduct in years gone by; nevertheless, at this juncture they were right, which was far more important than being logical or consistent.

Either the celestial nature of the nymph is in the way of their union, or he doubts the legality of the match, or he fears his own unworthiness, or he is hampered by the angry jealousy of a previous wife.

I felt my great unworthiness of being used in such a work, but remembered that God hath chosen the weak things of this world to confound the wise.

The gentlemen knew that military censure, however unpleasant, did not always imply moral unworthiness; and as for the ladies, they retained too lively a sense of his skill and gallantry, to wish to imagine evil on grounds so slight and vague.

Nor need they object their great unworthiness; for he doth all freely for the glory of his free grace.

She flattered herself that nothing less than a reciprocal passion could have prompted Mr. Falkland to the desperate attempt of saving her from the flames; and she trusted that this passion would speedily declare itself, as well as induce the object of her adoration to overlook her comparative unworthiness.

And so I did, bringing all the previous promises before Him, pleading my unworthiness, but my great need; asking first for ten dollars; then, as I grew more earnest, I asked for twenty-five, feeling almost frightened as the words came from my lips.

Upon election to the throne he accepts office with great reluctance protesting his unworthiness with tears.

If any one praised me, I was not allowed, in self-congratulation, to receive it as a well-merited tribute; but people expected from me some modest expression, humbly setting forth the total unworthiness of my person and my work.

But, little by little, as the hours passed, there in the trodden grass he began to understand something of the unformulated decision that had been slowly growing in himof the determination, taking shape, to deal more nobly with himselfwith this harmless self which had accepted unworthiness and all its attributes, and which riven pride would have flung back at the civilisation which branded him as base.

But, Eubulides, take heed how thou again sufferest the unworthiness of men to overcome the instincts of thine own nature.

When Cuddie, acknowledging his own unworthiness, adds:

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  unworthiness