单词 | well-deserver |
释义 | † well-deservern. Obsolete. A person who is fully deserving of something. Also with of, specifying the person or group from which something is deserved. ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [noun] > deserving (good or ill) > deserving well > one or those who well-deserver1566 well-deserving1577 1566 T. Nuce in J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon sig. C.v Know how that thear is a god, That well deseruers well rewardes. 1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre i. vi. 22 This Reward of martiall excellence..extended fourth itselfe, euen to the lowest souldier in his Campe and meanest wel-deseruer. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Georgics in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. ¶2v The Court: A place of forgetfulness, at the best, for well deservers. 1709 R. Steele & J. Swift Tatler No. 70 I shall think my self a Well-Deserver of the Church in recommending all the dumb Clergy to the famous speaking Doctor at Kensington. 1774 W. Bollan Rights Eng. Colonies Established in Amer. viii. 36 Our colonies are a constant encreasing source of industry and labour.., accompanied with the most beneficial means of its participation by innumerable well deservers in this kingdom. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 620/2 She deals out her favours capriciously—to one company of well-deservers, utter silence and oblivion. 1891 Nature 25 June 172/1 If he would be..a well-deserver of the mathematical republic, let him..replace all half demonstrations by honest statements of fact. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1566 |
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