worshipfull

English

Adjective

worshipfull (comparative more worshipfull, superlative most worshipfull)

1. Obsolete spelling of worshipful.
   • 1472, The Coventry Leet Book: Or Mayor's Register, sxn 57, "Joh. Thrumpton Mayor"

     […] the wheche old men all & euerych of hem by hym self deposed & swar openly vppon a boke in the presence of the forseid worshipfull men, all the grownde betwen Whitley broke & Barons ffeld of Couentre, that lyeth betwen the kynges hye waye ledyng from Whitley to Couentre on the one syde, and the kynges Parke on the toder syde, to be Comen to the Comeners of this Citee of Couentree;

   • 1593, Gabriel Harvey, “To right worshipfull his especiall dear friend, M. Gabriell Harvey, Doctour of Law”, in Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse, London: […] Iohn Wolfe, →OCLC; republished as John Payne Collier, editor, Pierces Supererogation: Or A New Prayse of the Old Asse. A Preparative to Certaine Larger Discourses, Intituled Nashes S. Fame (Miscellaneous Tracts. Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I; no. 8), [London: [s.n.], 1870], →OCLC, page 13A: