Deserving
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster
Deserving - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
DESERVING, ppr.
1. Meriting; having a just claim to reward; justly meriting punishment.
2. Worthy of reward or praise; meritorious; possessed of good qualities that entitle to approbation; as a deserving officer.
DESERVING, n. The act of meriting; desert; merit.
If ye have done to him according to the deserving of his hands. Judg 9.
Source of the article
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
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