Lexicographical Neighbors of Demerited
Literary usage of Demerited
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of Americanisms. by John Russell Bartlett (1877)
"Among the cadets at the US Military Academy, West Point, " to be skinned " is to
be demerited. Skin. " Skin your own skunk," ie do your own dirty work. ..."
2. Rates of Pay and Regulations Governing Employes in Train and Yard Service on by Edgar Erastus Clark, Patrick Henry Morrisey, Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen (1900)
"Trainmen will not be discharged from the service, or be demerited except- ; for
good and sufficient cause, and in case a trainman is ..."
3. Affray at Brownsville, Tex by United States Congress. Senate. Committee on Military Affairs (1907)
"The soldier is issued 20 at the start and must fire all of those 20 or be demerited,
and they are counted at the other end to see if he has any that he has ..."
4. Institutes of the Christian Religion by Jean Calvin (1921)
"... and beyond the utmost extent of our ability, to fulfil the law as he requires, —
if we only view ourselves, and consider what we have demerited, ..."
5. Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society by Massachusetts Historical Society (1884)
"... we are greatly at a loss to conceive by what we have demerited so much, as by
one act, unrepresented and unheard, to be thus disfranchised fy ruined. ..."
6. Our American Humorists by Thomas Lansing Masson (1922)
"... rose one morning very early in a preparatory school to look at the sun rise;
the head master discovered him in this heinous act, and demerited him; ..."
7. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: With a Life of the Author by Jeremy Taylor, Reginald Heber (1822)
"... yet thou demerited it not; but in thy preservation thou hast deserved the
contrary; which is to be forsaken and abandoned. Consider the benefit thou ..."
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