deservedlyadv.
/dᵻˈzəːvᵻdli/, U.S. /dəˈzərvədli/, /diˈzərvədli/ According to desert or merit; rightfully, worthily.
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society > morality > dueness or propriety > [adverb] > deservedly
righteouslya1382
worthilyc1405
condignlyc1450
meritorilyc1503
gradely?1521
deservedly1548
deservingly1552
deservably1593
desertfully1601
meritoriously1607
meritedly1638
justly1849
1548 W. Thomas Ital. Gram. & Dict. Meritamente, woorthely or deseruedly.
a1571 W. Haddon in A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. (1576) 415 It may deservedly challenge immortalitie.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd i. 407 Deservedly thou griev'st, compos'd of lyes. View more context for this quotation
1709 J. Addison Tatler No. 122. ⁋1 A People of so much Virtue were deservedly placed at the Head of Mankind.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 176 Some of the views are much and deservedly admired.
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