deserve
verb (used with object)
to merit, be qualified for, or have a claim to (reward, assistance, punishment, etc.) because of actions, qualities, or situation.
deserver
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a word derived from
deserve.
Example Sentences
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To the truly accomplished gentleman, and worthy deserver of all men's loves, Master Endymion Porter.
From Notes and Queries, Number 210, November 5, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by George Bell
Give me swift transportance to those fields, Where I may wallow in the Lily beds Proposed for the deserver.
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
He accounts it an idle, vainglorious, and suspected bounty to be full of good words; his rewarding, therefore, of the deserver arrives so timely, that his liberality can never be said to be gouty-handed.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
And this, "The sublime heavens, which with your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, and fix you the deserver of the desert that is deserved by your grandeur."
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
And this: "The sublime heavens, which with your divinity divinely fortify you with the stars, and fix you the deserver of the desert that is deserved by your grandeur."
From The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites by Eva March Tappan
