Adjective : a worthy successor. ,a book worthy of praise; a person worthy to lead.    From Dictionary.com. 

Noun : The town worthies included two doctors.    From Dictionary.com. 

Bishop: Are you resolved to exercise the ministry of the word worthily and wisely, preaching the Gospel and explaining the Catholic faith?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ordination vows] Reference

Such was the wife who, while John Brown fought for liberty, grudged him not to such a cause, and patiently trained others who should bear his name worthily in days to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old John Brown, the man whose soul is marching on] Reference

Our Saxon King Alfred desired that he might live "worthily".    From Wordnik.com.  [St. George and Canada] Reference

If that desire of King Alfred to live "worthily" was ever exemplified, it has been so with our present King and Queen.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. George and Canada] Reference

'Who is able to speak worthily of the fullness of childhood?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Man or Matter] Reference

Oh, is it not time this ideal should be worthily understood?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference

The stomach specialist worthily stood high in his profession.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

She was the only daughter; she was a worthily beloved daughter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

This is worthily supplemented by the splendid volumes of Miss Tarbell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

He became the type, flower, and representative of all that is worthily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference

Mrs. Tennyson to hold her place worthily at his side, many witnesses have spoken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

I do not think that you can; at all events, your money may be more worthily spent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew] Reference

The story of the packets is very notable, and has been worthily told by Mr.A. H. Norway.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cornwall Coast] Reference

Then came the opening of the edifice, which so worthily represents the Vaudois cause in Turin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference

This is not to say that they will be worthily loved or loyally: there are two sides to a bargain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference

Nobly she is expiating the past, and has long since worthily won the "well-done" of her moral self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

Then said Greatheart to Mr. Valiant-for-Truth, "Thou hast worthily behaved thyself; let me see thy sword.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference

We cannot find him worthily: he is great in strength, and in judgment, and in justice, and he is ineffable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference

Yes, that was the one thing he desired -- worthily to perform the great work which had been given him to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference

Cheeseekau withdrew to fast and thus to prepare himself to consult worthily the sacred talisman of the tribe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference

"Pride must have a fall," and I resolved to bear up as bravely and worthily as my self-control would allow me.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor's Daughter] Reference

Not seldom has she acted worthily in all these several capacities, fighting, toiling, and ministering by turns.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

It is a fine subject, exquisitely conceived and executed, and worthily described in Byron's two immortal stanzas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta] Reference

Marcus W.itman would never have felt summoned to take that famous ride so worthily chronicled by Oliver W. Nixon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land We Live In The Story of Our Country] Reference

It is a delightful salad herb which is too much neglected, and it is worthily entitled to cultivation in Australia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

But in the great world of pictorial art, both in England and on the Continent, he worthily holds an illustrious place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference

An incidental result was a greatly increased enrollment of new students at the college they had so worthily represented.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference

Noble companies of worshippers might worthily swear allegiance to Thackeray and Browning; but by the voice of the people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference

For these things, and by the like things to these, they were worthily punished, and were destroyed by a multitude of beasts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 25: Wisdom The Challoner Revision] Reference

She resembled the Caterina Cornaro, the gallant queen of the island of Cypress, painted by Titian, and whose name she worthily bore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Episcopal chapel and the rectory of the Rev.Mr. Gilfillan, who for fourteen years has worthily occupied a parish coextensive with the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference

But old age has its joys and pleasures as keen as youth or adult age, if the youth and adult ages were lived sanely, worthily and properly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference

Rest assured, Brigitte, no one will ever understand you better than I; another will love you more worthily, no one will love you more truly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Our people have already worthily observed the centennials of the Declaration of Independence, of the battle of Yorktown, and of the adoption of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [US Presidential Inaugural Addresses] Reference

If their services can be rewarded by promotion to the rank of Major-Generals in the regular army the honor would be worthily bestowed, and I would feel personally gratified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference