different between demerit vs qualification

English

Etymology

From Old French desmerite (compare French démérite).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??m?r?t/
• Rhymes: -?r?t

Noun

demerit (countable and uncountable, plural demerits)

2. A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage
   • 1790, Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France

     They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action.
3. A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
   • 2002, George W. Bush, Commencement Address at West Point:

     A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years. Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, Ulysses S. Grant, who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest day of his life was "the day I left West Point." (Laughter.)

4. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
   • c. 1550s, Nicholas Udall, Ralph Roister Doister

     Leave here thy body, death has her demerit

   • 1603, Philemon Holland (translator), The Philosophie, commonly called, the Morals (originally by Plutarch)

     By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, [they] acquired this reputation.

Synonyms

• discredit

Antonyms

• merit

Derived terms

• demerit point

Translations

Verb

demerit (third-person singular simple present demerits, present participle demeriting, simple past and past participle demerited)

1. (transitive, archaic) To deserve.
   • 1840, Alexander Campbell, Dolphus Skinner, A discussion of the doctrines of the endless misery and universal salvation (page 351)

     You hold that every sin is an infinite evil, demeriting endless punishment.

2. (transitive, archaic) To depreciate or cry down.
   • 1576, John Woolton, The Christian Manuell

     Faith by her own dignity and worthiness doth not demerit justice and righteousness; but receiveth and embraceth the same offered unto us in the gospel […]

Anagrams

• detemir, dimeter, merited, mitered, red time, retimed

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French qualification in the 1540s, which in turn derives from Medieval Latin qu?lific?ti?. Surface analysis: qual(ify) +? -ification.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw?l?f??ke???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?l?f??ke???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

qualification (countable and uncountable, plural qualifications)

1. The act or process of qualifying for a position, achievement etc. [from 16th c.]

   Qualification for this organization is extraordinarily difficult.

2. An ability or attribute that aids someone's chances of qualifying for something; specifically, completed professional training. [from 17th c.]

   What are your qualifications for this job?

3. (Britain) A certificate, diploma, or degree awarded after successful completion of a course, training, or exam.
4. A clause or condition which qualifies something; a modification, a limitation. [from 16th c.]

   I accept your offer, but with the following qualification.

5. (obsolete) A quality or attribute. [17th-19th c.]
   • 1714, Bernard Mandeville, The Fable of the Bees:

     To shew, that these Qualfications, which we all pretend to be asham'd of, are the great support of a flourishing Society has been the subject of the foregoing Poem.

Derived terms

• disqualification
• qualification problem

Related terms

• qualify
• certification

Translations

See also

• clarification

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.li.fi.ka.sj??/

Noun

qualification f (plural qualifications)

1. qualification (all senses)

Related terms

• qualifier

Further reading

• “qualification” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).