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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling..
'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'
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 […]
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.
Use shillingsworth when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Shillingsworth means (historical) An object or quantity that can be purchased for a shilling..
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'Only look at his jacket, mother!' cried Annie; 'and a shillingsworth gone from his small-clothes!'
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