unmerited

adj

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Germanic *un- Proto-West Germanic *un- Old English un- Middle English un- English un- English merited English unmerited From un- + merited.

1. Not merited.

   “She was tempted to leave him with his illusions. Something in her nature, however, caviled at this unmerited encomium.”

   “Since then the bibliography on the central question it addressed—the relationship between nature and the absolutely unmerited destination of us to the face-to-face vision of God—has diminished considerably in volume.”