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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



... sorrow of the company concerning the loss of Erebus, and he had come to promise it another mate for Joe that would do him credit. So they let Joe out of his stall and showed the Deputy how deserving he was of the finest mate that could ...
— The Trimmed Lamp • O. Henry
... sincerity are such that they could not have two lovers at the same time. You believed your mistress such a one; that is best, I admit. You have discovered that she has deceived you; does that oblige you to despise and to abuse her, to believe her deserving of ...
— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset
... of which were the two angry ladies. By ill-luck his second in command was ill and away from work. Next in seniority came an official, competent enough to deal with ordinary cases of theft, disturbance, or general misdemeanour, but hardly to be trusted with an affair deserving of delicate and cautious management. M. Lesueur felt obscurely that the present was an affair of that kind. The parties to it were not only well dressed, but (with the possible exception of Amelie, whose ...
— The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice - From "The New Decameron", Volume III. • V. Sackville West
... himself; often such a visit ended in a loan, whereby the 'barrer' was replenished and the surly husband set to work; but if all efforts at peacemaking were useless, this new apostle had methods beyond the reach of the ordinary missionary—he would (the case deserving it) drop his mild, insinuating, persuasive tones, and not only threaten to pulp the incorrigible blackguard into a jelly, ...
— Side Lights • James Runciman
... whose men were ready to fire at a word from their officers, the retired merchants and even the notaries of the new town anxiously examined their consciences, asking if they had not committed some political peccadilloes which might be thought deserving of a bullet. ...
— The Fortune of the Rougons • Emile Zola


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