Word Meanings - MISDESERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ill desert. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to MISDESERT)

• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• DESERTLESS
  Without desert.
• DESERT
  That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit. According to their deserts will I judge them. Ezek. vii. 27. Andronicus, surnamed Pius For many good and great
• DESERTLESSLY
  Undeservedly. Beau. & Fl.
• DESERTRIX; DESERTRICE
  A feminine deserter. Milton.
• DESERTFUL
  Meritorious. Beau. & Fl.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• DESERTNESS
  A deserted condition. "The desertness of the country." Udall.
• DESERTION
  1. The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service. Such a resignation would
• INDESERT
  Ill desert. Addison.
• MISDESERT
  Ill desert. Spenser.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.