[UN-1 13.] Want of desert or merit.
1598. Florio, Immerito, vnworthines, vndeseruing.
a. 1635. Sibbes, Confer. Christ & Mary (1656), 24. When any temptation cometh for our unworthinesse, and our undeserving.
1711. M. Henry, Hope & Fear Balanced, 14. Let us keep up an humble Sense of our own Vndeservings and Ill-deservings.
1906. Quiller-Couch, Mayor of Troy, xi. They came contritely, conscious of their undeserving.
