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  1. Wormeatenadjective

    Etymology: [worm and eaten.

    For his verity in love, I do think him as concave as a covered goblet, or a wormeaten nut. William Shakespeare.

    His chamber all was hanged about with rolls,
    And old records from antient times deriv’d;
    Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls.
    That were all wormeaten, and full of canker holes. Edmund Spenser.

    Things among the Greeks, which antiquity had worn out of knowledge, were called ogygia, which we call wormeaten, or of defaced date. Walter Raleigh, Hist. of the World.

    Thine’s like wormeaten trunks cloath’d in seal’s skin;
    Or grave, that’s dust without, and stink within. John Donne.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wormeaten in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wormeaten in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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