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Meaning of merit
noun
- A claim to commendation or a reward.
- A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence. Example: For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
- Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward. Example: 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. Example: 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. Example: Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits.
verb
- To deserve, to earn. Example: Her performance merited wild applause.
- To be deserving or worthy. Example: They were punished as they merited.
- To reward.
Source: Free Dictionary API.
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