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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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
If affection lead a man to favor the less worthy in desert, let him do it, without depraving or disabling the better deserver.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
O, be thou my Charon, And give me swift transportance to these fields Where I may wallow in the lily beds Propos'd for the deserver!
From Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare
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
