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Deserving   /dɪzˈərvɪŋ/   Listen
adjective
Deserving  adj.  Meritorious; worthy; as, a deserving person or act.


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."


noun
Deserving  n.  Desert; merit. "A person of great deservings from the republic."





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"Deserving" Quotes from Famous Books



... and therefore ridiculous. Who that has read the story of Anthony Benezet, as related by Dr. Rush, has not smiled at what he must have regarded a feeling wholly misplaced, if nothing more? And yet it was a feeling which I think is very far from deserving ridicule, however homely the manner of expressing it. But I have related this interesting story in another part of ...
— Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages • William Andrus Alcott
... of a different type who came to say, very modestly, that she had a balance in a bank at The Hague which she wanted to leave to my order for use in helping people who were poor and deserving. "Please make as sure as you can of the poverty," said she, "but take a chance, now and then, on the deserts. We can't confine our kindness to saints." This gift amounted to two or three thousand dollars, and was the foundation of the Minister's private benevolence fund, which proved so useful ...
— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke
... as if they were not persons at all, but mounds of combustible explosive material, for blowing down Bastilles with! In very truth, a Revolutionist of this kind, is he not a Solecism? Disowned by Nature and Art; deserving only to be erased, and disappear! Surely, to our poorer brethren of Paris, all this Girondin patronage sounds deadening and killing: if fine-spoken and incontrovertible in logic, then all the falser, ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle
... as he who was elected was deserving of other and greater posts. He was a native of Perpinan, in the county of Rosellon, and a son of the convent of Zaragoca, in Aragon, where he studied arts and theology. He was prior of the convent of ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume XXI, 1624 • Various
... Institution for this purpose be established, the chief difficulty in the way of the redemption of unhappy thousands would be obviated. The general outline of such a plan will be found at the close of the volume. It seems eminently deserving the profound consideration of all who devote themselves to the promotion of public morals or the ...
— The Opium Habit • Horace B. Day


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