merit
/ˈmɛɹɪt/ sustantivo C2En español: mérito, merecimiento
- A claim to commendation or a reward.
- A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. · For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
- Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. · His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment. · to acquire or make merit
- Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
Plural merits
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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.”
“Your merits should be publicly recognized.
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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