indesert Now rare.
(ɪndɪˈzɜːt)
[f. in-3 + desert n.1]
Absence of desert; want of merit; the fact or character of being undeserving.
| 1646 G. Daniel Poems Wks. 1878 I. 80 Let the giddie Rout give weight and poise To Indesert. 1672 Penn Spirit of Truth Vind. 97 This much in Answer to his Cavills, whose Emptiness might have been enough to sound out their own indesert of any. 1709 Steele Tatler No. 69 ¶1 A Man in Power who can..raise obscure Merit, and discountenance successful Indesert. 1861 Goulburn Pers. Relig. iv. iv. (1870) 282 To relieve them without any remarkable indesert on their part. |
b. pl. Demerits, faults.
| 1612 Shelton Quix. iii. xiii. 264 What indeserts did this wench commit. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 256 ¶1 All those who..were once looked on as his Equals, are apt to think the Fame of his Merits a Reflexion on their own Indeserts. |