Definition of Merit

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Definition of Merit

Merit

The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.

Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.

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.

To reward.

To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

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Merit Quotations

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
William Shakespeare

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.
Emily Dickinson

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw

The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Jonathan Swift

Merit Translations

merit in Afrikaans is verdien
merit in Danish is fortjene
merit in Dutch is waard zijn, toekomen, verdienen
merit in Finnish is ansaita
merit in German is Verdienst
merit in Latin is excellentia, promereo, dignitas, promeritum

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