Deserved vs Befitting - What's the difference?
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(deserve)
To be entitled to, as a result of past actions; to be worthy to have.
:After playing so well, the team really deserved their win .
:After what he did, he deserved to go to prison .
:This argument deserves a closer examination.
*Bible, Job xi. 6
*:God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth .
*Thackeray
*:John Gay deserved to be a favourite.
(obsolete) To earn, win.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
*:That gentle Lady, whom I loue and serue, / After long suit and weary seruicis, / Did aske me, how I could her loue deserue , / And how she might be sure, that I would neuer swerue.
(obsolete) To reward, to give in return for service.
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*:Gramercy saide the kynge / & I lyue sir Lambegus I shal deserue hit / And thenne sir Lambegus armed hym / and rode after as fast as he myghte
(obsolete) To serve; to treat; to benefit.
*Massinger
*:A man that hath / So well deserved me.
appropriate, becoming
Deserved is a related term of befitting.
As verbs the difference between deserved and befitting
is that deserved is (deserve) while befitting is .As an adjective befitting is
appropriate, becoming.deserved
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(head)deserve
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* merit * See alsoUsage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeExternal links
* *Anagrams
*befitting
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- These boots are befitting for both sexes.
- He moved with a befitting grace.