merit
IPA: mˈɛrʌt
noun
- (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
- (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
- (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
- (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.
- (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.
- (countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.
verb
- (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
- (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.
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Examples of "merit" in Sentences
- Discuss the merits of the issue.
- The merits of the fact are petty.
- The merit of the claims is disputed.
- The article merited speedy deletion.
- Argue solely on the merits of the case.
- Critique edits on the merits of the edits.
- This is regardless of the merit of the edit.
- Discuss the merits of the page not the nom.
- The appellate division affirmed on the merits.
- Discuss the merits of the article, not the editors.
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