Definition of merit

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Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

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Reviewer :: Reviewer (n.) One who reviews or reexamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books..
Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To oblige; to confer a favor on.
Temeration :: Temeration (n.) Temerity.
Emerited :: Emerited (a.) Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged..
Meritory :: Meritory (a.) Meritorious.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To depreciate or cry down.
Excellence :: Excellence (n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Ordinary :: Ordinary (a.) Of common rank, quality, or ability; not distinguished by superior excellence or beauty; hence, not distinguished in any way; commonplace; inferior; of little merit; as, men of ordinary judgment; an ordinary book..
Adulation :: Adulation (n.) Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited..
Worth :: Worth (a.) Value in respect of moral or personal qualities; excellence; virtue; eminence; desert; merit; usefulness; as, a man or magistrate of great worth..
Deserving :: Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.
Detur :: Detur (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Reader :: Reader (n.) One who reads manuscripts offered for publication and advises regarding their merit.
Protomerite :: Protomerite (n.) The second segment of one of the Gregarinae.
Superiorly :: Superiority (n.) The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
Chicane :: Chicane (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry..
Jury :: "Jury (a.) A committee for determining relative merit or awarding prizes at an exhibition or competition; as, the art jury gave him the first prize..
Criticise :: Criticise (v. i.) To discuss the merits or demerits of a thing or person; esp., to find fault..
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