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▸ noun: (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
▸ noun: (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
▸ noun: (uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) 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.
▸ noun: (uncountable, law) 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.
▸ noun: (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
▸ verb: (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
▸ verb: (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
▸ verb: (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.
Similar:
deserve,
virtue,
meritoriousness,
deservingness,
rate,
worthy,
Merrit,
demerit,
deservedness,
consideration,
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Types:
academic merit,
athletic merit,
artistic merit,
professional merit,
moral merit,
social merit,
leadership merit,
intellectual merit,
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