misdesert

English

Etymology

From mis- +‎ desert.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɪsdəˌzɜː(ɹ)t/

Noun

misdesert (plural misdeserts)

(obsolete) The state or fact of deserving bad things. [16th–19th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  My haplesse case
  Is not occasiond through my misdesert,
  But through misfortune […]

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