Unmerited

ppl. a. (UN-¹ 8.)

1648.  Hexham, II. Onbedient, Vndeserved, or Vnmerited.

1667.  Milton, P. L., XII. 278. Favour unmerited by me, who sought Forbidd’n knowledge.

1711.  Spect., No. 77, ¶ 5. Those Nods of Approbation which I never bestow unmerited.

1740.  Richardson, Pamela (1824), I. 157. This, sir,… is all goodness unmerited on my side.

1808.  Wordsw., White Doe, II. 525. The excess Of an unmerited distress.

1889.  in Retrospect Med., CII. 33. Years ago I remember getting a good deal of quite unmerited credit.

  Hence Unmeritedness.

1648.  Boyle, Seraph. Love (1659), 70. The freenesse or unmeritednesse of God’s love.

a. 1680.  Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), II. 437. The unmeritedness of them doth enhance this.