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Definition of Disserved
1. disserve [v] - See also: disserve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disserved
Literary usage of Disserved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Diary of Ezra Stiles: Ed. Under the Authority of the by Ezra Stiles (1901)
"Our great Mildness towards the last I fear has disserved Government. We should
have rusticated half a dozen ..."
2. The life of Edward earl of Clarendon, written by himself. [on large paper by Edward Hyde (1857)
"had were the only persons trusted in employment, men who had most eminently
disserved and maliciously traduced the king, and had been to that time looked ..."
3. The New Englander by William Lathrop Kingsley (1881)
"It is a little puzzling, however, to uncultured people, to understand how if God
is not to be regarded as a person, he can be " displeased and disserved ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1881)
"He thinks, therefore, in his daintiness of culture, that (rod "is displeased and
disserved by men uttering such doggerel hymns as 'Sing glory, glory, glory, ..."
5. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Edward Gaylord Bourne, James Alexander Robertson, Emma Helen Blair (1906)
"... for this is a matter whose fulfilment we desire greatly, and if this be not
obeyed we shall consider ourselves greatly disserved. 22. ..."
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