Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Undeserving.

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  • adjective obsolete Undeserving.

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  • adjective obsolete undeserving

Etymologies

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Latin immeritus; prefix im- not + meritus, past participle of merere, mereri, to deserve.

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Examples

  • Criticising the conclusion of a passage in Milton's treatise, the language of the first portion of which is pronounced "too sublime and angelical for mortal creatures to comprehend it," the Answerer declares, "This frothy discourse, were it not sugared over with a little neat language, would appear so immeritous, so contrary to all humane learning, yea truth and common experience itself, that all that read it must needs count it worthy to be burnt by the hangman."

    The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649 David Masson 1864

  • Criticising the conclusion of a passage in Milton's treatise, the language of the first portion of which is pronounced “too sublime and angelical for mortal creatures to comprehend it,” the Answerer declares, “This frothy discourse, were it not sugared over with a little neat language, would appear so immeritous, so contrary to all humane learning, yea truth and common experience itself, that all that read it must needs count it worthy to be burnt by the hangman.”

    The Life of John Milton Masson, David, 1822-1907 1859

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