undeserve

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English

Etymology

From un- +‎ deserve.

Verb

undeserve (third-person singular simple present undeserves, present participle undeserving, simple past and past participle undeserved)

  1. (obsolete) To fail to deserve.
    • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker ; nd by Robert Boulter ; nd Matthias Walker, , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC:
      With fair equality, fraternal state,
      Will arrogate dominion undeserved
      Over his brethren, and quite dispossess
      Concord and law of nature from the earth

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “undeserve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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