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unˈmeritable a. [un-1 7 b.] 1. Unable to claim merit.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 155 Your loue deserues my thankes, but my desert Vnmeritable, shunnes your high request. 1601― Jul. C. iv. i. 12 This is a slight vnmeritable man, Meet to be sent on Errands. 1797Ld. Thurlow in Cowper's Wks. (1836) III. 212 Cowper's distemper persuades him that he is unmeritable and unacceptable to God. 1884Child Ballads ii. 393/1 An Italian ballad, a slight and unmeritable thing. 1885Swinburne Misc. (1886) 137 He was content to rely on his..simplicity alone; with a result sometimes merely trivial and unmeritable. †2. Unmerited, undeserved. Obs.
1635J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virg. 22 You..are..come to undoe me with your unmeritable favours. 1666Earl of Orrery in St. Lett. (1743) II. 93 Those unmeritable expressions of your grace's kindness. |