单词 | misdesert |
释义 | † misdesertn. Obsolete. The condition of being deserving of punishment or undeserving of reward. Also: an action or quality which deserves punishment (usually in plural). ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > condition of being undeserving unworth1340 misdeserving1540 undesert1587 misdesert1596 undeserving1598 indeserta1657 undeservednessa1834 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z5 My haplesse case Is not occasiond through my misdesert, But through misfortune. View more context for this quotation 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. xlviii. 306 All those miserable creatures, who for their secret misdeserts, are..condemned to tug at an Oar. a1843 R. Southey Oliver Newman (1845) iv. 30 Which, either for misluck or misdesert, They fail to find at home. 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 192 Many of us, for our misdeserts, may be unfit for the immediate presence of God. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < |
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