A quality deserving praise or approval; virtue, The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert, Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation, verb_ be worthy or deserving, transitive verb_ To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense, intransitive verb_ obsolete To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit, To be worthy or deserving