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DESERVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Properly deserved
Example:
a merited success
Synonyms:
deserved; merited
Classified under:
Similar:
condign (fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb deserve
Context examples:
She must have delighted the Coles—worthy people, who deserved to be made happy!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Jane was not deceived, but she was affected; and though feeling no reliance on her, could not help writing her a much kinder answer than she knew was deserved.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Edward tried to return her kindness as it deserved, but before such witnesses he dared not say half what he really felt.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He also commented on the future, This is only the beginning and I am very lucky to win (...) It's deserved but in the future these guys will be tougher to beat.
(Norway's Warholm wins gold in 400 m hurdles at World Championships in Doha, Wikinews)
It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
If by the aid of the powers which you are said to possess you can find such an envelope as I describe with its enclosure, you will have deserved well of your country, and earned any reward which it lies in our power to bestow.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He had the character of a great miser; and, to my misfortune, he well deserved it, by the cursed advice he gave my master, to show me as a sight upon a market-day in the next town, which was half an hour’s riding, about two-and-twenty miles from our house.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I make bold to say that the man who can carry these objects out with success has deserved better of the country than the officer of a battleship, tacking from Ushant to the Black Rocks and back again until she builds up a reef with her beef-bones.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Jo's funny hat deserved a vote of thanks, for it was of general utility.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
