Definition of merit

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

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Approvable :: Approvable (a.) Worthy of being approved; meritorious.
Immerit :: Immerit (n.) Want of worth; demerit.
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..
Testamur :: Testamur (n.) A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences..
Purgatory :: Purgatory (n.) A state or place of purification after death; according to the Roman Catholic creed, a place, or a state believed to exist after death, in which the souls of persons are purified by expiating such offenses committed in this life as do not merit eternal damnation, or in which they fully satisfy the justice of God for sins that have been forgiven. After this purgation from the impurities of sin, the souls are believed to be received into heaven..
Self-importance :: Self-importance (n.) An exaggerated estimate of one's own importance or merit, esp. as manifested by the conduct or manners; self-conceit..
Stern :: Sterling (a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense..
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) The state of one who deserves ill.
Worthiness :: Worthiness (n.) The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.
Deserving :: Deserving (n.) Desert; merit.
Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly..
Meritedly :: Meritedly (adv.) By merit; deservedly.
Desert :: Desert (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit..
Emeriti :: Emeriti (pl. ) of Emeritu.
Indulgence :: Indulgence (n.) Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of the merits of Christ and his saints to the contrite soul through the church. It is therefore believed to diminish or destroy for sins the punishment of purgatory..
Indignity :: Indignity (n.) Any action toward another which manifests contempt for him; an offense against personal dignity; unmerited contemptuous treatment; contumely; incivility or injury, accompanied with insult..
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..
Promerit :: Promerit (v. t.) To deserve; to procure by merit.
Detur :: Detur (n.) A present of books given to a meritorious undergraduate student as a prize.
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