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Worthiness :: Worthiness (n.) The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

Desertion :: Desertion (n.) The act of deserting or forsaking; abandonment of a service, a cause, a party, a friend, or any post of duty; the quitting of one's duties willfully and without right; esp., an absconding from military or naval service..

Forsake :: Forsake (v. t.) To quit or leave entirely; to desert; to abandon; to depart or withdraw from; to leave; as, false friends and flatterers forsake us in adversity..

Wild :: Wild (n.) An uninhabited and uncultivated tract or region; a forest or desert; a wilderness; a waste; as, the wilds of America; the wilds of Africa..

Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Bubale :: Bubale (n.) A large antelope (Alcelaphus bubalis) of Egypt and the Desert of Sahara, supposed by some to be the fallow deer of the Bible..

Departure :: Departure (n.) The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another..

Detractory :: Detractory (a.) Defamatory by denial of desert; derogatory; calumnious.

Waive :: Waive (v. t.) To desert; to abandon.

Ratter :: Ratter (n.) One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party..

Solitude :: Solitude (a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

Straggle :: Straggle (v. t.) To wander from the direct course or way; to rove; to stray; to wander from the line of march or desert the line of battle; as, when troops are on the march, the men should not straggle..

Zilla :: Zilla (n.) A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs..

Slip :: Slip (n.) An escape; a secret or unexpected desertion; as, to give one the slip..

Desertion :: Desertion (n.) Abandonment by God; spiritual despondency.

Desert :: Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit..

Etiolated :: Etiolated (a.) Having a blanched or faded appearance, as birds inhabiting desert regions..

Desertful :: Desertful (a.) Meritorious.

Satisfy :: Satisfy (a.) To pay to the extent of claims or deserts; to give what is due to; as, to satisfy a creditor..

Condignness :: Condignness (n.) Agreeableness to deserts; suitableness.

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