adv. [UN-1 11.]
1. Without possessing desert or merit; unworthily.
1552. Huloet, Vndeseruyngelye, immerito.
1611. Cotgr., Indignement, vnworthily, vndeseruingly,… without merit.
1653. Nissena, 118. Abusing the authority wherewith he was undeservingly intrusted.
1695. Ld. Preston, Boeth., III. 116. For they who are praised & applauded undeservingly, must needs … be ashamed.
2. Without having done wrong; innocently.
1645. Milton, Tetrach., 56. He suffer’d … in his comon wealth some to bee undeservedly rich, others to bee undeservingly poore.
1781. C. Johnston, Hist. J. Juniper, II. 43. That state of happiness, from which she had so undeservingly fallen.
