indesert
English
Etymology
Noun
indesert (countable and uncountable, plural indeserts)
- (obsolete) Ill desert; failure to deserve something.
- 1709 September 28 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Joseph Addison], “Saturday, September 17, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 69; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume I, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822, →OCLC:
- [W]hich stop the Way to the true Knowledge and Service of Mankind, overlook the little Distinctions of Fortune, raise obscure Merit, and discountenance successful Indesert […]
- 1831, George Hall (vicar of Tenbury), The dictate book; being lessons on life, men, and manners
- All those who made their entrance into the world with the same advantages, and were once looked on as his equals, are apt to think the fame of his merits a reflection on their own indeserts, and will therefore take care to reproach him […]
- 1861, E. M. Goulburn, Thoughts on Personal Religion:
- To relieve them without any remarkable indesert on their part.
References
- “indesert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.