deserving (the two uses are equally freq.).
1.
that
which one deserves, desert, due reward
Meas. V. i. 478
“[death] 'Tis my ,”
Lr. V. iii. 306, Sonn. lxxxvii. 6.
2.
that for which one
deserves well, merit All'sW. I. iii.
7,
2H4 IV. iii. 48
“more of his courtesy
than your ,”
Lr. III. iii. 24
“This seems a fair ”
