alderworst
English
Etymology
From alder- + worst.
Adjective
alderworst (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Worst of all.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene i]:
- You some permit / To second ills with ills, each elder worse, / And make them dread it, to the doers’ thrift.