A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1554-1616
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(Undeservit,) Undeserwit, -disserved, Wndeserwed, -dessarwet, ppl. adj. Also: one dysservit. [ME and e.m.E. vndeserved (Chaucer), undeserved (Gower); Deserve v.] That is not deserved or justified; unmerited. —1554 Corr. M. Lorraine 395.
The greit panis and lawbyr your lordship hes takyne in my effaris at the quenis grace, quhilk is of your awyne gudnes and benevolance one dysservit be me1561 Q. Kennedy Compendious Ressonyng (ed.) 153/20.
As to the vngodlie mwrmwr and ignorant iugement of the cuntre vndeserwit, I stand nocht thairby c1575 Annandale Corr. 272.
We mervell of your maisterschipis greyt wnfryndnas declaret toward ws wndessarwet 1613 Southesk MSS 14.
The bypast pruiffes of your vndisserved favour to me and my doughter 1616 Mure Early Misc. P. xi 35.
Hatred (alace!) for deirest loue I gain … And, for my paines, reaps wndeserwed disdain
