Meaning of shillingsworth | Babel Free
Examples
“'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.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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