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Etymology

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From un- +‎ deserve.

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undeserve (third-person singular simple present undeserves, present participle undeserving, simple past and past participle undeserved)

  1. To fail to deserve, to be unworthy of
    • 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:
      With fair equality, fraternal state,
      Will arrogate dominion undeserved
      Over his brethren, and quite dispossess
      Concord and law of nature from the earth

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