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▪ I. deserving, vbl. n.|dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ|
[f. deserve v. + -ing1.]
Desert, merit; = desert n.1
1388Wyclif Ps. vii. 5 Falle Y, bi disseruyng. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 37 Aftyr ther olde merytys and deseruynges..holpe..or lettyd. a1541Wyatt Poet. Wks. (1861) 185 Chastise me not for my deserving According to thy just conceived ire. 1600E. Blount tr Conestaggio 94 Striving to make knowne his better deserving. 1721Cibber Love in Riddle ii. i, My weak Praise would wrong his full Deservings. 1814Mrs. J. West Alicia de Lacy I. 181 Was he, indeed..ignorant of his own deserving? 1866Kingsley Herew. iii, Ah, that he would reward the proud according to their deservings.
▪ II. deˈserving, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
a. That deserves (good, ill, etc.); used contextually with either sense implied; but esp. in a good sense, meritorious, worthy. Esp. in phr. deserving poor.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 117 Your meritorious and wel deserving behaviour. c1610Middleton, etc. Widow i. i, To the deservingest of all her sex. 1676Dryden Aurengz. v. i. p. 77 Cease to grieve And for a more deserving Husband live. a1685Otway (J.), Courts are the places..Where the deserving ought to rise. 1801Observer 29 Nov. 4/2 [The bill] proposed to enable Overseers to relieve the deserving Poor. 1828G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xv. 224 Severer punishment upon the deserving culprits. a1897Mod. The problem of the relief of the deserving poor. 1971B. Inglis Poverty & Industrial Revolution i. 17 The deserving poor had been issued with small badges which served as a kind of begging licence.
b. Const. of (rarely omitted).
1769Goldsmith Rom. Hist. (1786) II. 259 He was highly deserving this distinction. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 171 Observations the more deserving of your attention. 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) II. xii. 206 They all appeared deserving his attention. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 405 Delinquents..deserving of exemplary punishment. |