undeserve

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ deserve.

Verb

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

References

• “undeserve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Duneverse, unsevered