merit
/ˈmɛɹɪt/ verb C2- To deserve, to earn. · Her performance merited wild applause.
- To be deserving or worthy. · They were punished as they merited.
Plural merit · He/she/it merits · Past merited · Past participle merited · -ing form meriting
Verb forms
- Base form
- merit
- He/she/it
- merits
- Past
- merited
- Past participle
- merited
- -ing form
- meriting
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That bell that you carry is not, believe me, any order of merit, but on the contrary a mark of disgrace, a public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill mannered dog.”
Seventeen months’ captivity to a sailor accustomed to the boundless ocean, is a worse punishment than human crime ever merited.
My friend was an enthusiastic musician, being himself not only a very capable performer but a composer of no ordinary merit.
I can only claim the merit that I instantly reconsidered my position when, however, it became clear to me that whatever danger threatened an occupant of the room could not come either from the window or the door.
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