Word Meanings - DESERTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without desert.

DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
DESERTLESS
Without desert.
DESERTLESSLY
Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer.
DESERT
That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
A feminine deserter. Milton.
DESERTFUL
Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
DESERTNESS
A deserted condition. "The desertness of the country." Udall.
DESERTION
1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would
INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison.
MISDESERT
Ill desert. Spenser.