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shillingsworth

shillingsworth

English

Noun

shillingsworth (plural shillingsworths)

  1. (historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling.
    • 1873, The Fortnightly Review (volume 20, page 507)
      In the voltaic battery, from a shillingsworth of chemical force we can obtain nearly twelve-pennyworth of electricity; in an electroplating vat, from the twelve-penceworth of electricity we get a shillingsworth of chemical force []
    • 1914, The Cambridge Magazine (volume 4, page 121)
      It is a pleasure to handle these tasteful little Volumes, whose covers are not smeared with that unwelcome gilt which so often repels one in the case of similar shillingsworths.