noteworthyadj.

1552 Ordre Hospital S. Bartholomewes sig. C.vii To note..the somme, and content, of euerye article..that shall appiere note worthie.

1596 Vlysses vpon Aiax sig. E6^v Is it not a custome when a prince hath spoken anye thing note-worthy, to say he hath deliuered it maiestically?

1613 G. Markham Second Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 36^v For those few which were most note-worthy in his eyes, their characters were these.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xii. 128 He..by his intelligencers was certified of every note-worthy passage in the English armie.

1775 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 65 58 It is note-worthy, that in all the old statutes of assize prior to Henry VII. the legal gallon measure of capacity is founded on 8 pounds, raised from the weight of 32 grains of wheat.

1848 S. C. Bartlett Egypt to Palestine (1879) iv. 68 A noteworthy comment on the fate of human pride.

1855 R. Browning One Word More xvi What, there's nothing in the moon note-worthy?

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 68 In this prayer there is a noteworthy absence of what may be termed pagan elements.

1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage cxii. 591 He showed himself strenuous to see all that was noteworthy, and he described with a fine enthusiasm the castles of the Rhine.

1938 Amer. Home Oct. 110/2 With its noteworthy hardiness, it proved an object lesson for..preachments about the need of arcticness in our modern garden roses.

2001 fRoots Oct. 65/2 Also noteworthy is the appropriately named Bibi Hammond for his well timed keyboard stabs.

1864 W. B. Pope tr. E. R. Stier Words of Lord Jesus (new ed.) V. 69 The conjunction..is..found..in St Matthew and St Mark only once..(and in both cases very noteworthily of the deceivers.

1912 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 23 3 Its ideas, which, noteworthily, we had to import from France as we do our finest silks and wines, struck most Americans as discoveries.

1995 Jrnl. Appl. Ecol. 32 619/1 Noteworthily, all product variables of number of years by grazing treatment had a similar effect on compositional change.

1852 J. E. A. Smith Taghconic 56 I admitted the noteworthiness of the fact, but trusted to the genius and address of my fair kinswoman for a successful issue.

1887 A. Elliot Old Man's Favour II. iii. iii. 178 She was aware of the noteworthiness of the apparently simple occurrence.

1993 Dict. National Biogr.: Missing Persons 92/2 Brooke's claim to noteworthiness rests on his role in the Alien Office.