Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: UN-DE-SERV'ING – UN-DE-TEST'ING
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UN-DE-SERV'ING, a.
- Not deserving; not having merit. God continually supplies the wants of his undeserving creatures.
- Not meriting; with of; as, a man undeserving of happiness, or of punishment. Sidney. Pope.
UN-DE-SERV'ING-LY, adv.
Without meriting any particular advantage or harm. Milton.
UN-DES'IG-NA-TED, a.
Not designated. Warton.
UN-DE-SIGN'ED, a.
Not designed; not intended; not proceeding from purpose; as, to do an undesigned injury.
UN-DE-SIGN'ED-LY, adv.
Without design or intention.
Freedom from design or set purpose. Paley.
UN-DE-SIGN'ING, a.
- Not acting with set purpose.
- Sincere; upright; artless; having no artful or fraudulent purpose. It is base to practice on undesigning minds.
UN-DE-SIR'A-BLE, a. [s as z.]
Not to be desired; not to be wished; not pleasing. Milton.
UN-DE-SIR'ED, a. [s as z.]
Not desired, or not solicited.
UN-DE-SIR'ING, a.
Not desiring; not wishing. Dryden.
UN-DE-SIR'OUS, a.
Not desirous.
UN-DE-SPAIR'ING, a.
Not yielding to despair. Dyer.
UN-DE-SPOIL'ED, a.
Not despoiled.
UN-DES'TIN-ED, a.
Not destined.
Indestructible. [Not in use.] Boyle.
UN-DE-STROY'ED, a.
Not destroyed; not wasted; not ruined. Locke.
UN-DE-TACH'ED, a.
Not detached; not separated.
UN-DE-TECT'ED, a.
Not detected; not discovered; not laid open. R. G. Harper.
That can not be determined or decided. Locke.
Not determinate; not settled or certain. [But indeterminate is now generally used.]
Uncertainty; unsettled state.
Indecision; uncertainty of mind. [See Indetermination, which is chiefly used.]
UN-DE-TERM'IN-ED, a.
- Not determined; not settled; not decided. Locke.
- Not limited; not defined; indeterminate. Hale.
UN-DE-TER'RED, a.
Not deterred; not restrained by fear or obstacles. Mitford.
UN-DE-TEST'ING, a.
Not detesting; not abhorring. Thomson.