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well(-)deˈserved, ppl. a.
Rightfully merited or earned.
a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. xxii. §9 We..caused the wicked Historian to conclude his history, with his owne well-deserued death. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 20 The lignage right, From whence he tooke his well deserued name. 1619Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xliv. 25 Your Bayes must be your well-deserued blame, For your ill actions quench my sacred flame. 1756C. Smart tr. Horace (1826) II. 95 He who derived a well-deserved title from the destruction of Carthage. 1825Scott Talism. v, Until his awful judge shall at length appoint the well-deserved sentence to be carried into execution. 1889J. B. Bury Later Rom. Emp. I. 76 The Gildonic war, through which Stilicho won well-deserved laurels.
†b. In active sense or loose construction = ‘having well deserved it.’ Obs.
1601Shakes. All's Well ii. i. 192 If I breake time, or flinch in property Of what I spoke, vnpittied let me die, And well deseru'd. |