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Definition of Merit

1. Verb. Be worthy or deserving. "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"

2. Noun. Any admirable quality or attribute. "Work of great merit"

3. Noun. The quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance). "There were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"

Definition of Merit

1. n. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

2. v. t. To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.

3. v. i. To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Definition of Merit

1. Noun. Something deserving good recognition. ¹

2. Noun. Something worthy of a high rating. ¹

3. Noun. A claim to commendation or reward. ¹

4. Noun. The quality of deserving reward. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To earn or to deserve. ¹

6. Verb. (intransitive) To be worthy or deserving. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Merit

1. to earn [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: earn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Merit

merism merismatic merisms merismus merispore meristem meristematic meristematically meristemic meristemoid

meristemoids meristems meristic meristically meristics merit (current term) merit badge merit pay merit system meritable

merited meritedly merithallus meriting meriting(p) meritless meritlessly meritlessness meritmonger meritmongers

Literary usage of Merit

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"The ;rit will be carefully defined in the certificate, candidate who may obtain marks of merit ect, in addition to marks of ..."

2. The Concise Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen, George Smith, Harold F. Oxbury (1885)
"Nor did all his merit lie in tragedy ; in the serious parts ot comedy, ... He WHS very favourably received, and gradually, from his merit as an actor and ..."

3. Annual Report by Correctional Association of New York (1870)
"Whenever a convict shall have received four merit marks in any period of six ... When such merit marks are earned a second time during any such period, ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, William Smith (1862)
"f In the establishment and restoration of the Turkish empire the first merit must doubtless be assigned to the personal succession qualities ot the sultans: ..."

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