单词 | indesert |
释义 | indesertn. Now rare. a. Absence of desert; want of merit; the fact or character of being undeserving. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > moral impropriety > [noun] > condition of being undeserving unworth1340 misdeserving1540 undesert1587 misdesert1596 undeserving1598 indeserta1657 undeservednessa1834 a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 80 Let the giddie Rout give weight and poise To Indesert. 1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 97 This much in Answer to his Cavills, whose Emptiness might have been enough to sound out their own indesert of any. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 69. ⁋1 A Man in Power who can..raise obscure Merit, and discountenance successful Indesert. 1861 E. M. Goulburn Thoughts Pers. Relig. (1870) iv. iv. 282 To relieve them without any remarkable indesert on their part. b. plural. Demerits, faults. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > wrong conduct > evildoing or wrongdoing > [noun] > an evil deed > an evil deed, fault, or offence > faults indeserts1612 1612 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes Don-Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. xiii. 264 What indeserts did this wench commit. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 256. ¶1 All those who..were once looked on as his Equals, are apt to think the Fame of his Merits a Reflexion on their own Indeserts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1612 |
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