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Definition of Demerits
1. demerit [v] - See also: demerit
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demerits
Literary usage of Demerits
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Office Management, Its Principles and Practice: Covering Organization by Lee Galloway (1918)
"Method of Recording Merits and demerits The head of each department makes a
detailed report each night to the office manager regarding the record of his ..."
2. Russia in Central Asia in 1889 and the Anglo-Russian Question by George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon (1889)
"demerits CHAFFER X RUSSIAN KULE IN CENTRAL ASIA Not but wut abstract war is horrid
... Merits and demerits of Russian rule—Abolition of raids and gift of ..."
3. Arms and the Boy: Military Training in Schools and Colleges, Its Value in by Leigh Robinson Gignilliat (1916)
"Assignment of demerits and Penalties.—There are many things for which the ...
No demerits are assigned, even for a minor offense, until the cadet is given ..."
4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(g) Merits and demerits of different forms of government.—In a democracy, where
the right of making laws resides in the people at large, public virtue, ..."
5. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1849)
"On their prospecta under such a leader, therefore, quite 'apart from his demerits
of "authorship," we cannot possibly congratulate the protectionist party. ..."
6. Modern Egypt by Evelyn Baring Cromer (1908)
"... and the corvee—Merits and demerits of the corvee system—The corvée law—Dredging
the canals— Proposed redaction of the land-tax — Proposal to abolish the ..."
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