Definition of merit

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Merit (n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.

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Judge :: "Judge (v. i.) One who has skill, knowledge, or experience, sufficient to decide on the merits of a question, or on the quality or value of anything; one who discerns properties or relations with skill and readiness; a connoisseur; an expert; a critic..
Worthily :: Worthily (adv.) In a worthy manner; excellently; deservedly; according to merit; justly; suitably; becomingly.
Meritorious :: Meritorious (a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To depreciate or cry down.
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..
Merithallus :: Merithallus (n.) Same as Internode.
Demerit :: Demerit (n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; -- the opposite of merit.
Blameful :: Blameful (a.) Faulty; meriting blame.
Gratuitous :: Gratuitous (a.) Given without an equivalent or recompense; conferred without valuable consideration; granted without pay, or without claim or merit; not required by justice..
Poorly :: Poorly (adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly..
Emeritus :: Emeritus (n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.
Premerit :: Premerit (v. t.) To merit or deserve beforehand.
Meed :: Meed (n.) That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.
Superior :: Superior (a.) Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery..
Merithal :: Merithal (n.) Alt. of Merithallu.
Merit :: Merit (n.) To reward.
Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Excellence :: Excellence (n.) The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.
Earn :: Earn (v. t.) To merit or deserve, as by labor or service; to do that which entitles one to (a reward, whether the reward is received or not)..
Meed :: Meed (n.) Merit or desert; worth.
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