单词 | undeserve |
释义 | undeservev. transitive. To fail to deserve. Also absol. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > be morally improper for [verb (transitive)] > fail to deserve undeserve1621 dismerit1622 demerit1654 disdeserve1668 misdeserve1672 1621 F. Quarles Hadassa in Divine Poems vii The blaze of Honour, Fortune's sweet excesse, Doe vndeserue the name of Happinesse. 1650 R. Gentilis tr. V. Malvezzi Considerations Lives Alcibiades & Corialanus 73 Where they doe not undeserve wanting the use of reason, wee should merit in rightly using it. 1719 C. Cibber Ximena ii. 15 Let us not..undeserve the Grace by new false Fears. 1760 R. Griffith & E. Griffith Lett. Henry & Frances (ed. 2) II. cccxxx. 383 There are certain base Natures, which not deserving Favours before hand, are sure to undeserve, the more they receive. 1894 Ld. Rosebery in Daily News 3 May 6/6 I am inclined to think that..Government have done nothing so far to undeserve that welcome. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.1621 |
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