Word Meanings - UNDESERVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.

Related words: (words related to UNDESERVER)

• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
  See INTERNODE
• MERITORY
  Meritorious.
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• MERITOT
  A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
• MERITABLE
  Deserving of reward.
• DESERVING
  Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
• WORTHY
  A man of eminent worth or value; one distinguished for useful and estimable qualities; a person of conspicuous desert; -- much used in the plural; as, the worthies of the church; political worthies; military worthies. The blood of ancient worthies
• MERITMONGER
  One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.
• MERITEDLY
  By merit; deservedly.
• MERITORIOUS
  Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n.
• DESERVER
  One who deserves.
• MERIT
  deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
• TEMERITY
  Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
• EMERITUS
  Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• PROMERIT
  1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.
• OVERMERIT
  Excessive merit. Bacon.
• UNDESERVE
  To fail to deserve. Milton.
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
• SEAWORTHY
  Fit for a voyage; worthy of being trusted to transport a cargo with safety; as, a seaworthy ship.
• IMMERITED
  Unmerited. Charles I.