单词 | misdeserving |
释义 | † misdeservingn. Obsolete. The condition of being undeserving of reward or deserving of punishment. Also: an action or quality which deserves punishment (frequently in plural). Cf. misdesert n. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > condition of being undeserving unworth1340 misdeserving1540 undesert1587 misdesert1596 undeserving1598 indeserta1657 undeservednessa1834 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus sig. Iijv Throughe thy mysdeseruing. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vii. xxx. 347/2 Not stained with any aspersion of misdeseruing. a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James II in Wks. (1711) 30 His past Demerits and Misdeservings. 1649 in D. C. MacTavish Minutes Synod of Argyll (1943) I. 138 Though they were not conscious of any misdeserveings in themselves to procure such a dislyke. 1849 New Englander (New Haven, Connecticut) Nov. 627 Boston, whatever may be its deservings or misdeservings in other respects, is guiltless of the blunder here alluded to. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2021). † misdeservingadj. Obsolete. rare. Failing to deserve, undeserving. ΚΠ 1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 77 If any be found misdeserving in the same manner. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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