DESERVEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does deservedly mean? 

• DESERVEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb DESERVEDLY has 1 sense:

1. as deserved

  Familiarity information: DESERVEDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DESERVEDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As deserved

Context example:

he chalked up two goals which deservedly gave Bolton their second victory of the season

Antonym:

undeservedly (in an unmerited manner)

 Context examples 

I had let it go by, and had deservedly lost her.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I had formerly, upon occasion, discoursed with my master upon the nature of government in general, and particularly of our own excellent constitution, deservedly the wonder and envy of the whole world.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

She took three days to consider of his proposals, and during those three days asked the advice of everybody connected with her whose opinion was worth having, and especially applied to my late dear aunt, whose knowledge of the world made her judgment very generally and deservedly looked up to by all the young people of her acquaintance, and she was decidedly in favour of Mr. Fraser.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I need not explain myself farther; and though we know this anxiety to be quite needless, yet if she feels it, it will easily account for her behaviour to me; and so deservedly dear as he is to his sister, whatever anxiety she must feel on his behalf is natural and amiable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The aunt was a capricious woman, and governed her husband entirely; but it was not in Mr. Weston's nature to imagine that any caprice could be strong enough to affect one so dear, and, as he believed, so deservedly dear.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The beauty, fashion, and exclusiveness of Port Middlebay, flocked to do honour to one so deservedly esteemed, so highly talented, and so widely popular.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

These were searched and sought out through the whole nation, by the prince and his wisest counsellors, among such of the priesthood as were most deservedly distinguished by the sanctity of their lives, and the depth of their erudition; who were indeed the spiritual fathers of the clergy and the people.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Mrs. Goddard's school was in high repute—and very deservedly; for Highbury was reckoned a particularly healthy spot: she had an ample house and garden, gave the children plenty of wholesome food, let them run about a great deal in the summer, and in winter dressed their chilblains with her own hands.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)