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Definition of Meriting
1. merit [v] - See also: merit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Meriting
Literary usage of Meriting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... I apprehended might be of Use to him in his future Conduct, in meriting Colonel
Ogle- thorpe's Favour in particular, as well as the Trustees in general. ..."
2. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... d'Avril," who has had the glory of meriting to be imprisoned and nearly losing
his head ; a man with that sort of dark half-savage beauty with ..."
3. The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1837)
"... under the mask of gratitude, to think better of people than they deserved,
when they have professed more value for me than I was conscious of meriting. ..."
4. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... decided in the Supreme Court meriting attention was, that in such a case a
party excusing a breach of a penal act ought to prove the vis major, ..."
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