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well(-)earned, ppl. a.
Fully deserved or due; merited or acquired by good work or behaviour.
1730–46Thomson Autumn 343 The big hopes And well-earned treasures of the painful year. 1749Warton Tri. Isis 61 To wear the well-earn'd wreath that merit brings. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. viii. 593 The ruddy boys Withdrew, on summons to their well-earned meal. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xi. III. 75 Yet William might have had a more tranquil reign if he had postponed for a time the well earned promotion of his chaplain. 1855Paley æschylus (1861) Pref. vi, Its well-earned character for practical utility and careful editorial supervision. 1856Froude Hist. Eng. II. viii. 305 No pirate who ever swung on a well-earned gallows had committed darker crimes. |