DESERVEDLY Copy link • DESERVEDLYpro merito; merito; pro dignitate: very deservedly, meritissimo (Cic.): merito ac jure: jure: merito atque optimo jure; jure ac merito; jure meritoque: he would be deservedly punished, jure in eum animadverteretur: to be deservedly praised, merito ac jure laudari (Cic.). ☞ Deservedly may, in poetry, be rendered by meritus; e.g., meritus torquetur ab (Ov.).