misdesert

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/ˈmɪsdəˌzɜː(ɹ)t/

noun

The state or fact of deserving bad things.

First used 16th–19th c.Scrabble 12

Meanings

nounmisdesert (plural misdeserts)

plural misdeserts

  1. obsoleteThe state or fact of deserving bad things.First known use 16th–19th c.

    My haplesse case Is not occasiond through my misdesert, But through misfortune […]

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

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Chicago

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