unmerited

Adjective

unmerited (comparative more unmerited, superlative most unmerited)

1. Not merited.
   • She was tempted to leave him with his illusions. Something in her nature, however, caviled at this unmerited encomium.1990, Elizabeth Thornton, The Worldly Widow, New York: Zebra, published 2005, →ISBN
   • Since then the bibliography on the central question it addressed—the relationship between nature and the absolutely unmerited destination of us to the face-to-face vision of God—has diminished considerably in volume.1990 December, Joseph A. Komonchak, “Theology and Culture at Mid-Century: The Example of Henri de Lubac”, in Theological Studies, volume 51, number 4, →ISSN, pages 580–1