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deserued Malone: ‘Deserved’ for deserving. So delighted for delighting, in Othello, ‘If virtue no delighted beauty lack,’ [I, iii, 290].—W. A. Wright: So ‘dishonoured’ for ‘dishonourable,’ III, i, 75, above.—Whitelaw: Her children that have deserved well. Not to be compared with delighted for ‘delightful,’ dowered with delight (Othello, I, iii, 290), and dishonour'd for dishonourable, above, l. 75; both of them participles derived from the substantive.

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