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Deserve   /dɪzˈərv/   Listen
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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."






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... guide the landing party into the bush, nor could any of his men be induced to perform that office. Whereupon Captain Lewes, righteously indignant, had told Chief Johnny that he deserved to have his village burned. Johnny's beche de mer English did not include the word "deserve." So his understanding of it was that his village was to be burned anyway. The immediate stampede of the inhabitants was so hurried that the baby was dropped into the water. In the meantime Chief ...
— The Cruise of the Snark • Jack London

... music. Three weeks of anxious waiting will ensue before a huge crowd will assemble to see the list published. Then the successful candidates are the pride of their country side, and well do the survivors of such an ordeal deserve their credit. The case of those who are in the last selection and are left degreeless, for the stern reason that some must be crowded out, is the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892 • Various

... Maurandyas, Rodochitons, and Tropolums, deserve attention at this time, increasing them by cuttings or by seeds. Some annuals are also worthy of attention, such as Brachycomas, Phloxes, Portulaccas, Schizanthuses, with others which may all be forwarded in heat. Whoever has ...
— In-Door Gardening for Every Week in the Year • William Keane

... energies into this stupendous undertaking of carrying scientific knowledge and scientific habits of thought among the body of the people,—are they fairly open to the accusation of having sought to incite the indigent classes to hatred of the well-to-do? Do they not thereby really deserve the thanks and the affection of the propertied classes, and of the ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. X. • Kuno Francke

... solemn profession to adhere to the rules of the Third Order of St. Francis. Could I do less than devote myself wholly to his Order, I, who owe to him all that I have, and all that I am? Does not the cord of St. Francis deserve to gird even royal purple? St. Louis, King of France, St. Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary, wore it, as well as many other sovereigns and princesses. In our own day, Philip III, King of Spain, died in the habit of the blessed Father; Queen Elizabeth, wife of Philip IV, the reigning ...
— The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi • Father Candide Chalippe


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