deservev.

Brit.

/dᵻˈzəːv/, U.S.

/dəˈzərv/,

/diˈzərv/

Forms: Middle English– deserve; also Middle English decerve, descerve, discerve, desserve, Middle English–1500s disserve, 1500s dyserve.

Etymology: < Old French deserv-ir, now (for sake of pronunciation) desservir < Latin dēservīre to serve zealously, well, or meritoriously, < de- prefix 1c + servīre to serve: hence, in late popular Latin, to merit by service.

†1.

a. transitive. To acquire or earn a rightful claim, by virtue of actions or qualities, to (something); to become entitled to or worthy of (reward or punishment, esteem or disesteem, position, designation, or any specified treatment). Obsolete or archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill)

earnOE

of-earna1200

ofservec1225

serve?a1300

servec1300

asservec1325

ofgo1340

deservea1400

demerit1539

promerit1581

be-earn1596

supererogate?1624

emerit1648

rate1906

1292 Britton v. x. §5 Si ele ne puisse averrer..qe ele pout dowarie aver deservi.]

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10350 Childre þat..ofte deseruen [c1460 Laud decervyn] muchel mede.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 613 Ȝyf euer þy mon vpon molde merit disserued.

c1400 Rom. Rose 3093 I drede youre wrath to disserve.

1495 Act II Hen. VII c. 22 §4 Artificers..waste moch part of the day and deserve not their wagis.

c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxiii. 219 Honoure is dewe to them that dyserueth it.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 124 When, at your hands, did I deserue this scorne?

1713 J. Addison Cato i. ii 'Tis not in mortals to Command Success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll Deserve it.

†b. Const. with infinitive. Obsolete or archaic.

ΚΠ

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 502 That hast deseruyd sorere for to smerte.

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) ix. 200 Men that han disserved to ben dede.

†c. with indirect object and subordinate clause. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 268/1 Nor neuer deserued we vnto him y^t he should so much doe for vs.

a. To have acquired, and thus to have, a rightful claim to; to be entitled to, in return for services or meritorious actions, or sometimes for ill deeds and qualities; to be worthy to have. (Now the ordinary sense, in which to deserve is the result of having deserved in sense 1.)

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill) > by merit

deservec1440

demerit1555

meed1613

c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) Prol. 1 He desserued neuer nane euill; for he did neuer euill, ne thoght neuer euill.]

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 120 Deservyn..be worthy to havyn (K), mereor.

c1500 New Not-br. Mayd in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 46 Mercy or grace, A fore your face, He none deserueth in dede.

1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Gv We have many other herbes which deserve that name.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 45 Dooth not the gentleman Deserue as full as fortunate a bed.

1631 J. Shirley Love Tricks v. ii He gave me two or three kicks, which I deserved well enough.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 156 All Crimes doe equally deserve the name of Injustice.

1668 Lady Chaworth Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep. App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) II. 10 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889-II) XLIV. 393 Mr. Ho...deserves a better fate than to be ever of the loosing side.

1676 M. Lister in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 124 I am well pleased your Catalogue of Plants is again to be printed: it certainly deserves it.

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 278 I deserve not all the reproaches you make me.

c1850 Arabian Nights 546 Do you think that you deserve the favour?

1895 N.E.D. at Deserve Mod. The subject deserves fuller treatment than can be given to it here.

figurative and in extended use.1610 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 6 Not to return till towards Christmas, except the business deserve him not so long.

b. Const. with infinitive.

ΚΠ

1585 J. B. tr. P. Viret School of Beastes: Good Housholder sig. Aiv^v Yf the beastes do better their office..then men doe theirs, they deserve more to be called reasonable, then men.

1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xiii. 174 Herein many a Master deserues rather to be beaten then the schollar.

1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 154 Only those books come down which deserve to last.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 90 The clergy had won the battle then because they deserved to win it.

3. absol. or intransitive.

†a. To become entitled to the fitting recompense of action, character, or qualities.

b. To be so entitled; to have just claims for reward or punishment; to merit, be worthy. Often in to deserve ill or well of.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill

earnOE

deservec1300

servec1300

servec1350

merit1626

comerit1638

society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > by merit

deserve1535

c1300 Treat. Pop. Science 140 And went wheder heo hath deserved, to joye other to pyne.

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 1 Here me as my rightwisnes deserues.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. ix. 5 They y^t be deed, knowe nothinge, nether deserue they eny more.

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12029 Ryches..To be delt to þe dughti..As þai sothly desseruyt.

a1669 J. Trapp in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. vii. 16 Executed at Tyburn, as he had well deserven.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 That he, who best deserves, alone may reign.

1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 234 He deserves well of the Publick.

1811 Genl. Floyd in R. Southey Life Bell (1844) II. 640 You would, indeed, to use the French phrase, ‘Deserve well of the country.’

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 185 he..swore by the..deputies who had deserved well of their country.

1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 348 Slaves ought to be punished as they deserve.

c. in implied good sense.

ΚΠ

1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. A4 Finde him so officious to deserue, so ready to supply.

1752 E. Young Brothers iv. i While you deserved, my passion was sincere.

†4.

a. transitive. To secure by service or quality of action; to earn, win.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by desert

earnOE

deserve1377

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 134 Selden deieth he out of dette þat dyneth ar he deserue it.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 299 He..which had his prise deserved..Was made begin a middel borde.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) x. 29 Me most euery day nedis laboure, and deserue viij pense.

a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1027 Tharfor y red hir thonk at yow disserue.

a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. H But by the sword, my lord, it must be deseru'd.

b. Const. to (= for): To earn or win for (another). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xvii. 43 And in prayenge the angel desceruyth mede to vs.

c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 266 A cros was the instrument wher yn Crist..deserued to us al oure good.

1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 10 How..could the humane Nature of ours deserue that to vs; which his own could not deserue vnto it selfe?

†5.

a. To serve, do service to; to be serviceable or subservient to; to serve or treat well, to benefit. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > be useful to [verb (transitive)]

deserve1382

stead1571

bestead1589

serve1629

society > authority > subjection > service > serve [verb (transitive)]

theowtenc1175

servec1300

deserve1382

service1602

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. xiii. 16 By suche oostis God is disseruyd.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8405 Þat neuer did ne disserued [Vesp. serued] vileny.

?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 93 in Shorter Poems (1967) 12 Quhow lang sall I thus foruay? Quhilk ȝow and Venus in this garth deseruis.

1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. ii. sig. I3^v Of all the scumme that grew rich by my riots This..and this..haue worst deseru'd me.

a1640 P. Massinger Very Woman ii. 31, in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) You in this Shall much deserve me.

†b. intransitive with to, for, or infinitive in same sense. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > subjection > service > serve [verb (intransitive)]

theowtenc1175

serve?a1300

deservec1380

ministera1382

officiate1659

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 250 Loue techiþ to forȝeue hem and disserue to hem.

c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lv Thou knowist..hov muche tribulacion deseruiþ to purge þe rust of my vices.

a1475 Bp. Grossetest's Househ. Stat. (Sloane 1986) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 330 The vessels deseruyng for ale and wyne.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKv^v For these vertues..deserueth to the gyfte of pite, and thexercise of them, disposeth..man to the perfection of the same.

†6. transitive. To give in return for service rendered; to pay back, requite. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)] > specifically a service or good deed

quita1375

deservec1385

reward?a1425

requitec1440

thanka1500

remunerate1523

reacquite1534

gratulate1612

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Medea. 1624 My might, ne my labour, May nat disserve it in myn lyvys day.

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 156 But other, which have nought deserved Through vertue..A king shall nought deserve grace.

1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. ix I am moche beholdyng vnto hym, & I haue yll deserued it vnto hym for his kyndenes.

1523–5 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. II. 638 (R.) Whereof we shall thanke you, and deserve it to you and yours.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	deserve
释义	deservev. Brit. /dᵻˈzəːv/, U.S. /dəˈzərv/, /diˈzərv/ Forms: Middle English– deserve; also Middle English decerve, descerve, discerve, desserve, Middle English–1500s disserve, 1500s dyserve. Etymology: < Old French deserv-ir, now (for sake of pronunciation) desservir < Latin dēservīre to serve zealously, well, or meritoriously, < de- prefix 1c + servīre to serve: hence, in late popular Latin, to merit by service. †1. a. transitive. To acquire or earn a rightful claim, by virtue of actions or qualities, to (something); to become entitled to or worthy of (reward or punishment, esteem or disesteem, position, designation, or any specified treatment). Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill) earnOE of-earna1200 ofservec1225 serve?a1300 servec1300 asservec1325 ofgo1340 deservea1400 demerit1539 promerit1581 be-earn1596 supererogate?1624 emerit1648 rate1906 1292 Britton v. x. §5 Si ele ne puisse averrer..qe ele pout dowarie aver deservi.] a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 10350 Childre þat..ofte deseruen [c1460 Laud decervyn] muchel mede. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 613 Ȝyf euer þy mon vpon molde merit disserued. c1400 Rom. Rose 3093 I drede youre wrath to disserve. 1495 Act II Hen. VII c. 22 §4 Artificers..waste moch part of the day and deserve not their wagis. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxiii. 219 Honoure is dewe to them that dyserueth it. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 124 When, at your hands, did I deserue this scorne? View more context for this quotation 1713 J. Addison Cato i. ii 'Tis not in mortals to Command Success, But we'll do more, Sempronius; we'll Deserve it. †b. Const. with infinitive. Obsolete or archaic. ΚΠ c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Prol. 502 That hast deseruyd sorere for to smerte. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) ix. 200 Men that han disserved to ben dede. †c. with indirect object and subordinate clause. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv, in Wks. 268/1 Nor neuer deserued we vnto him y^t he should so much doe for vs. 2. a. To have acquired, and thus to have, a rightful claim to; to be entitled to, in return for services or meritorious actions, or sometimes for ill deeds and qualities; to be worthy to have. (Now the ordinary sense, in which to deserve is the result of having deserved in sense 1.) ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (transitive)] > deserve (well or ill) > by merit deservec1440 demerit1555 meed1613 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) Prol. 1 He desserued neuer nane euill; for he did neuer euill, ne thoght neuer euill.] c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 120 Deservyn..be worthy to havyn (K), mereor. c1500 New Not-br. Mayd in Anc. Poet. Tracts (Percy Soc.) 46 Mercy or grace, A fore your face, He none deserueth in dede. 1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. Gv We have many other herbes which deserve that name. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. i. 45 Dooth not the gentleman Deserue as full as fortunate a bed. View more context for this quotation 1631 J. Shirley Love Tricks v. ii He gave me two or three kicks, which I deserved well enough. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxvii. 156 All Crimes doe equally deserve the name of Injustice. 1668 Lady Chaworth Let. in Hist. MSS Comm.: 12th Rep. App. Pt. V: MSS Duke of Rutland (1889) II. 10 in Parl. Papers (C. 5889-II) XLIV. 393 Mr. Ho...deserves a better fate than to be ever of the loosing side. 1676 M. Lister in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 124 I am well pleased your Catalogue of Plants is again to be printed: it certainly deserves it. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 278 I deserve not all the reproaches you make me. c1850 Arabian Nights 546 Do you think that you deserve the favour? 1895 N.E.D. at Deserve Mod. The subject deserves fuller treatment than can be given to it here. figurative and in extended use.1610 J. Donne Lett. (1651) 6 Not to return till towards Christmas, except the business deserve him not so long. b. Const. with infinitive. ΚΠ 1585 J. B. tr. P. Viret School of Beastes: Good Housholder sig. Aiv^v Yf the beastes do better their office..then men doe theirs, they deserve more to be called reasonable, then men. 1612 J. Brinsley Ludus Lit. xiii. 174 Herein many a Master deserues rather to be beaten then the schollar. 1841 R. W. Emerson Spiritual Laws in Ess. 1st Ser. (London ed.) 154 Only those books come down which deserve to last. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. ii. 90 The clergy had won the battle then because they deserved to win it. 3. absol. or intransitive. †a. To become entitled to the fitting recompense of action, character, or qualities. b. To be so entitled; to have just claims for reward or punishment; to merit, be worthy. Often in to deserve ill or well of. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill earnOE deservec1300 servec1300 servec1350 merit1626 comerit1638 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill > by merit deserve1535 c1300 Treat. Pop. Science 140 And went wheder heo hath deserved, to joye other to pyne. a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 1 Here me as my rightwisnes deserues. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Eccl. ix. 5 They y^t be deed, knowe nothinge, nether deserue they eny more. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 12029 Ryches..To be delt to þe dughti..As þai sothly desseruyt. a1669 J. Trapp in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1870) I. Ps. vii. 16 Executed at Tyburn, as he had well deserven. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 That he, who best deserves, alone may reign. View more context for this quotation 1709 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 234 He deserves well of the Publick. 1811 Genl. Floyd in R. Southey Life Bell (1844) II. 640 You would, indeed, to use the French phrase, ‘Deserve well of the country.’ 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 185 he..swore by the..deputies who had deserved well of their country. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 348 Slaves ought to be punished as they deserve. c. in implied good sense. ΚΠ 1608 T. Middleton Trick to catch Old-one i. sig. A4 Finde him so officious to deserue, so ready to supply. 1752 E. Young Brothers iv. i While you deserved, my passion was sincere. †4. a. transitive. To secure by service or quality of action; to earn, win. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > obtain or acquire [verb (transitive)] > obtain or acquire in a certain way > by desert earnOE deserve1377 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiv. 134 Selden deieth he out of dette þat dyneth ar he deserue it. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 299 He..which had his prise deserved..Was made begin a middel borde. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) x. 29 Me most euery day nedis laboure, and deserue viij pense. a1500 Lancelot of Laik (1870) 1027 Tharfor y red hir thonk at yow disserue. a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. H But by the sword, my lord, it must be deseru'd. b. Const. to (= for): To earn or win for (another). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ii. xvii. 43 And in prayenge the angel desceruyth mede to vs. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 266 A cros was the instrument wher yn Crist..deserued to us al oure good. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 10 How..could the humane Nature of ours deserue that to vs; which his own could not deserue vnto it selfe? †5. a. To serve, do service to; to be serviceable or subservient to; to serve or treat well, to benefit. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > be useful to [verb (transitive)] deserve1382 stead1571 bestead1589 serve1629 society > authority > subjection > service > serve [verb (transitive)] theowtenc1175 servec1300 deserve1382 service1602 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. xiii. 16 By suche oostis God is disseruyd. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 8405 Þat neuer did ne disserued [Vesp. serued] vileny. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) Prol. l. 93 in Shorter Poems (1967) 12 Quhow lang sall I thus foruay? Quhilk ȝow and Venus in this garth deseruis. 1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. ii. sig. I3^v Of all the scumme that grew rich by my riots This..and this..haue worst deseru'd me. a1640 P. Massinger Very Woman ii. 31, in P. Massinger 3 New Playes (1655) You in this Shall much deserve me. †b. intransitive with to, for, or infinitive in same sense. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > serve [verb (intransitive)] theowtenc1175 serve?a1300 deservec1380 ministera1382 officiate1659 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 250 Loue techiþ to forȝeue hem and disserue to hem. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. lv Thou knowist..hov muche tribulacion deseruiþ to purge þe rust of my vices. a1475 Bp. Grossetest's Househ. Stat. (Sloane 1986) in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 330 The vessels deseruyng for ale and wyne. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. KKv^v For these vertues..deserueth to the gyfte of pite, and thexercise of them, disposeth..man to the perfection of the same. †6. transitive. To give in return for service rendered; to pay back, requite. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > reward or a reward > reward or recompense [verb (transitive)] > specifically a service or good deed quita1375 deservec1385 reward?a1425 requitec1440 thanka1500 remunerate1523 reacquite1534 gratulate1612 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Medea. 1624 My might, ne my labour, May nat disserve it in myn lyvys day. 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 156 But other, which have nought deserved Through vertue..A king shall nought deserve grace. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ii. ix I am moche beholdyng vnto hym, & I haue yll deserued it vnto hym for his kyndenes. 1523–5 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Chron. II. 638 (R.) Whereof we shall thanke you, and deserve it to you and yours. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.c1300
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