Meanings
verbundeserve (third-person singular simple present undeserves, present participle undeserving, simple past and past participle undeserved)
present singular third person undeserves · participle present undeserving · participle past undeserved · past undeserved
- To fail to deserve, to be unworthy of
With fair equality, fraternal state, Will arrogate dominion undeserved Over his brethren, and quite dispossess Concord and law of nature from the earth
1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC
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undeserve. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undeserve
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undeserve,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undeserve.
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