indesert

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English

Etymology

From in- +‎ desert.

Noun

indesert (countable and uncountable, plural indeserts)

  1. (obsolete) Ill desert; failure to deserve something.
    • 1709 September 28 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Saturday, September 17, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 69; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, , London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.;  , 1822, →OCLC:
      [W]hich stop the Way to the true Knowledge and Service of Mankind, overlook the little Distinctions of Fortune, raise obscure Merit, and discountenance successful Indesert […]
      The spelling has been modernized.
    • 1831, George Hall (vicar of Tenbury), The dictate book; being lessons on life, men, and manners
      All those who made their entrance into the world with the same advantages, and were once looked on as his equals, are apt to think the fame of his merits a reflection on their own indeserts, and will therefore take care to reproach him

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “indesert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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