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Meritmonger :: Meritmonger (n.) One who depends on merit for salvation.

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) What may be got without skill or merit.

Emeritus :: Emeritus (n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

Superior :: Superior (n.) One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English..

Demerit :: Demerit (n.) To depreciate or cry down.

Self-important :: Self-important (a.) Having or manifesting an exaggerated idea of one's own importance or merit.

Immerit :: Immerit (n.) Want of worth; demerit.

Merit :: Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Modesty :: Modesty (n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit..

Meed :: Meed (n.) That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.

Testamur :: Testamur (n.) A certificate of merit or proficiency; -- so called from the Latin words, Ita testamur, with which it commences..

Overmerit :: Overmerit (n.) Excessive merit.

Temerity :: Temerity (n.) Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war..

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..

Plutus :: Plutus (n.) The son of Jason and Ceres, and the god of wealth. He was represented as bearing a cornucopia, and as blind, because his gifts were bestowed without discrimination of merit..

Meritot :: Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy..

Hazardry :: Hazardry (n.) Rashness; temerity.

Condignity :: Condignity (n.) Merit, acquired by works, which can claim reward on the score of general benevolence..

Medalist :: Medalist (n.) One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit.

Meed :: Meed (n.) Merit or desert; worth.

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