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Definition of Disserves
1. disserve [v] - See also: disserve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disserves
Literary usage of Disserves
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"I am afraid to speak of him," said Mait- land ; ' ' one disserves a friend by
any overpraise ; but at Naples, and in his own set, he is thought charming. ..."
2. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"... will be Prsi- dant 1 of these das : as he in fac disserves from his patriotic
cervices to his ..."
3. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1829)
"... serves in the campaigns carried on by Prince Eugene against the Turks, and
whom after his death he so eminently disserves in the affairs of his child. ..."
4. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Once more Mill's bad old psychology of the tabula rasa, which attributes all
differences to training and opportunity, disserves him. Herein he goes back, ..."
5. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... and dishonours God by making Himself accessary to His own dishonour, as far
as lies in them ; for it disserves Him with a pretence of religion : and, ..."
6. The Life and Correspondence of Rufus King: Comprising His Letters, Private by Rufus King (1900)
"Their being so disserves those interests, and principles, the support whereof
calls for all the influence and discretion of the ablest and wisest men of the ..."
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