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English
Etymology
From un- + meritable.
Pronunciation
Adjective
unmeritable (comparative more unmeritable, superlative most unmeritable)
- Not meritable; undeserving of reward.
1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 123, column 2:This is a ſlight vnmeritable man, / Meet to be ſent on Errands : is it fit / The three-fold VVorld diuided, he ſhould ſtand / One of the three to ſhare it?
1660, Jeremy Taylor, “Of Our Comportment in and after Our Receiving the Blessed Sacrament. Sect I. Of the Circumstances and Manner of Reception of the Divine Mysteries.”, in The Worthy Communicant or A Discourse of the Nature, Effects, and Blessings Consequent to the Worthy Receiving of the Lords Supper votions Fitted to Every Part of the Ministration.">…], London: R. Norton for John Martyn, James Allestry, and Thomas Dicas , published 1661, →OCLC, pages 539–540:The effect of this conſideration ought to be, that you give God moſt hearty and ſuperexalted thanks, vvith all the tranſports and raviſhments of ſpirit, for ſo unſpeakable, ſo unmeritable, ſo unrevvardable a loving kindneſs.
1884 May, “Wordsworth and Byron”, in James Knowles, editor, The Nineteenth Century, volume XV, page 780:nd Wordsworth, it may be confessed, was liable to failure with a result sometimes merely trivial and unmeritable, sometimes actually repulsive or oppressive.