The quality of deserving honour; worthiness; merit.

The action of earning or deserving something; that which a person earns or merits. Obsolete.

That which a person deserves or earns.

Deserving; the becoming worthy of recompense, i.e. of reward or punishment, according to the good or ill of character or conduct; worthiness of…

what a person deserves or earns.

Desert, merit; = desert, n.1

The condition or fact of deserving reward or punishment. Obsolete.

With infinitive as complement. The quality of deserving to be treated in a specified manner; the quality of being worthy to do something.

= desert, n.1; deserving.

what a person or thing really deserves, esp. an appropriate punishment; now usually in plural.

The quality of having deserved; desert, worthiness; in good sense, excellence.

The state of being morally fit; worthiness.