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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
deserve .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Charity “It is not everyone who asketh that deserveth charity; all however, are worth of the inquiry or the deserving may suffer.”
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I rateth this performance @@@@@ cheeseburgers, although ith deserveth much more.
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Then she said to the Queen, ‘O my mother, do thou honour him as deserveth he who saved my virtue.’
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Shame not thy father's house; for Tyndareus deserveth not to be ill spoken of, being a mighty man in Hellas.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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But oftentimes man lapseth from this by cause of the inclination of the soul to lusts and turneth to frowardness, wherefore he falleth into Falsehood by the act of disobeying his Lord and thus deserveth punishment, and, by putting away from himself Falsehood with repentance and by the returning to the love of the Truth, he meriteth future reward.
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And I have answered thee, saying, I will not fail to cut off with it a head which deserveth cutting.
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Shame not thy father's house; for Tyndareus deserveth not to be ill spoken of, being a mighty man in Hellas.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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“We sell to him;” and another, “He deserveth her;” and a third, “Accursed, son of accursed, is he who biddeth and doth not buy!”
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“And now, my good friend of the Mist,” said he, “can you tell me what has become of your hopeful grandson, as I have not seen him since he assisted me to disarm after the action, a negligence which deserveth the strapado?”
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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And again, ‘Whoso confideth himself to his foe deserveth his own destruction.’
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