| 单词 | deserving poor |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeserving poor a. That deserves (good, ill, etc.); used contextually with either sense implied; but esp. in a good sense, meritorious, worthy. Esp. in deserving poor. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [noun] > poor person > those who merit relief deserving poor1576 society > morality > dueness or propriety > [adjective] > deserving (good or ill) > deserving by merit worthyOE worthc1175 well worthyc1390 well-deserving1545 deserving1576 desertful1583 desertive1596 deserveda1616 well-deserveda1616 1576 A. Fleming tr. Cicero in Panoplie Epist. 117 Your meritorious and wel deserving behaviour. a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) i. i. 5 To the deservingst of all her Sex. 1676 J. Dryden Aureng-Zebe v. 77 Cease to grieve, And, for a more deserving Husband, live. 1680 T. Otway Orphan ii. i 12 Courts are the places..Where the deserving ought to rise. 1801 Observer 29 Nov. 4/2 [The bill] proposed to enable Overseers to relieve the deserving Poor. 1828 G. W. Bridges Ann. Jamaica II. xv. 224 Severer punishment upon the deserving culprits. a1897 Mod. The problem of the relief of the deserving poor. 1971 B. Inglis Poverty & Industr. Revol. i. 17 The deserving poor had been issued with small badges which served as a kind of begging licence. < as lemmas |
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