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Deserve   /dɪzˈərv/   Listen
verb
Deserve  v. t.  (past & past part. deserved; pres. part. deserving)  
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." "John Gay deserved to be a favorite." "Encouragement is not held out to things that deserve reprehension."
2.
To serve; to treat; to benefit. (Obs.) "A man that hath So well deserved me."


deserve  v. i.  To be worthy of recompense; usually with ill or with well. "One man may merit or deserve of another."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Deserve" Quotes from Famous Books



... to his feet and walked up and down the room. When he spoke there was in his voice a suggestion of that which marked his speech in the days of the river fight. "I mean this: that no man on earth shall take this woman from me if I can prevent it. I would deserve to lose her if I gave her up on the mere guess that she cared for another man. I am going to know from her own words. If there is still a chance for me I am going to stay and fight for it. If I have no chance"—he dropped into a chair—"then I'll go ...
— The Winning of Barbara Worth • Harold B Wright
... would seem that ignorance does not cause involuntariness. For "the involuntary act deserves pardon," as Damascene says (De Fide Orth. ii, 24). But sometimes that which is done through ignorance does not deserve pardon, according to 1 Cor. 14:38: "If any man know not, he shall not be known." Therefore ignorance does ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas
... adjective; he scented a new one afar like a truffle; and from the Morgue of the dictionary he dragged forgotten beauties. He dowered the language of his day with every tint of dawn and every convulsion of sunset; he invented metaphors that were worth a king's ransom, and figures of speech that deserve the Prix Montyon. Then reviewing his work, he formulated an axiom which will go down with a nimbus through time: Whomsoever a thought however complex, a vision however apocalyptic, surprises without words to convey it, is not ...
— The Merry-Go-Round • Carl Van Vechten
... to come to business, with the remark that the more liberal your bidding the better will our glorious general, Titus Caesar, be pleased; the better will the poor and the invalided soldiers, who deserve so well at your hands, be pleased; the better will the girl herself be pleased, who I am sure will know how to reward a generous appreciation of her worth; and the better shall I, your humble friend and servant, be pleased, because, as I may inform you in strict secrecy, ...
— Pearl-Maiden • H. Rider Haggard
... things are thus, I'm glad the Wench hath escap'd: for by this Event, 'tis plain, she was not happy enough to deserve to be poison'd. ...
— The Beggar's Opera - to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song • John Gay


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