Merit means "worthiness or excellence." If you receive a certificate of merit in school, you are being recognized for doing a good job. As a verb, merit means "deserve." Your certificate might merit a prominent place on your bulletin board!
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Noun
the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"
Noun
any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit"
Verb
be worthy or deserving; "You deserve a promotion after all the hard work you have done"
n.
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
n.
Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving
well; worth; excellence.
n.
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or
approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
n.
To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim
as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to
merit punishment.
n.
To reward.
v. i.
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to
profit.
Merit
Here may men see how sin hath his merit.
Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that others do; and when we fall, We answer other's merits in our name.2.
Reputation is ... oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own.3.
Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth.
Merit
Merit
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense;
To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Usage Examples
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.
I won't touch on risky, because that's subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Other Usage ExamplesNow an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect.
Cagey trial lawyers have figured out there's a pretty good likelihood their case - no matter what its merit - will literally get its day in court because of favorable judges.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
In America, as opposed to the old country, success was based on merit.
It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.
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