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Meanings of deserving the name in English

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Usage of deserving the name in English
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Nothing deserving the name of conviction can have a place in such.
The Education of American Girls
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There was no chemistry deserving the name to require his study.
Medical Essays, 1842-1882
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A revolution scarcely deserving the name had made France a second time a republic.
A Short History of France
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There was, I think, only one road deserving the name, which passed through Rougham.
The Coming of the Friars
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The picture lacked background, as there is nothing in Illinois deserving the name of hill.
The Book of the Bush / Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the ...
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Has he even persuaded us that the love existed in a form deserving the name?
Lost Illusions
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Subsequently we saw the lofty-peaked Corcovado-welldeserving the name of "el famoso Corcovado."
The Voyage of the Beagle
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Oh, my dear, my dearest, best friend, you are the only one deserving the name of woman!
The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
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But the Roman father refused to recognize the instinct which prompted this, as deserving the name of love.
The True Citizen: How to Become One
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Judged from this point of view, Japanese and Chinese paintings look very puerile, hardly deserving the name of art.
The Mind of the Artist / Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sc...
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Several crude structures, scarcely deserving the name of tables, were centers of interest for rings of rough and ill-assorted men.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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Whoever he might be, he looked upon a Quaker as a mild, inoffensive person, hardly deserving the name of man.
The Young Bank Messenger
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Doesn't Macaulay refer to that as "the last fight deserving the name of battle, fought on English soil"?
Set in Silver
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There are certain elemental facts which underlie human society wherever it has advanced to a stage deserving the name of civilization.
Horace and His Influence
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Many of them were of considerable size, really deserving the name of trees, though some could only be called large bushes.
The South Sea Whaler
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The scenery was wild, and though nearly destitute of vegetation- afewcoarse plants occurring here and there scarcely deserving the name-verybeautiful.
Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay
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