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unmeritable

Shakespearean Definition:

Adjective - meritless, not having merit

Frequency: 2

Here are all of the speeches where unmeritable shows up across the corpus:

Julius Caesar


This is a slight , unmeritable man ,
Meet to be sent on errands . Is it fit ,
The threefold world divided , he should stand
One of the three to share it ?

Richard III


I cannot tell if to depart in silence
Or bitterly to speak in your reproof
Best fitteth my degree or your condition .
If not to answer , you might haply think
Tongue-tied ambition , not replying , yielded
To bear the golden yoke of sovereignty ,
Which fondly you would here impose on me .
If to reprove you for this suit of yours ,
So seasoned with your faithful love to me ,
Then on the other side I checked my friends .
Therefore , to speak , and to avoid the first ,
And then , in speaking , not to incur the last ,
Definitively thus I answer you :
Your love deserves my thanks , but my desert
Unmeritable shuns your high request .
First , if all obstacles were cut away
And that my path were even to the crown
As the ripe revenue and due of birth ,
Yet so much is my poverty of spirit ,
So mighty and so many my defects ,
That I would rather hide me from my greatness ,
Being a bark to brook no mighty sea ,
Than in my greatness covet to be hid
And in the vapor of my glory smothered .
But , God be thanked , there is no need of me ,
And much I need to help you , were there need .
The royal tree hath left us royal fruit ,
Which , mellowed by the stealing hours of time ,
Will well become the seat of majesty ,
And make , no doubt , us happy by his reign .
On him I lay that you would lay on me ,
The right and fortune of his happy stars ,
Which God defend that I should wring from him .