Undeservedness

[UN-¹ 12.] a. The quality of being undeserved. b. Want of desert.

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1611. Speed, Hist. Gt. Brit., IX. xix. 713/2. The reuerence of the man, or vndeseruednesse of his wrongs, moued so the affection of the Oxford Academians, that [etc.].

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1646. Jenkyn, Remora, 16. Ponder it in the … unexpectednesse, undeservednes, manner of bestowing it.

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1711–2. R. Newton, Serm. (1734), 458. If much be due … on account of the Greatness of our Blessing, how much more is due when we consider the Undeservedness of it?

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c. 1834. J. Martin, Disc., iv. 54. That consciousness of sin and undeservedness which every one feels.

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