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honour
English
Alternative forms
- honor (American)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??n?(?)/
Noun
honour (countable and uncountable, plural honours)
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, South African spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
- 1902, Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible, Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour.
- 1902, Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible, Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
Antonyms
- dishonour
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
honour (third-person singular simple present honours, present participle honouring, simple past and past participle honoured)
- British spelling, Canadian spelling, Commonwealth of Nations, and Ireland standard spelling of honor.
Derived terms
- honour in the breach
Translations
Middle English
Etymology
Anglo-Norman honour.
Noun
honour (plural honours)
- honour
Descendants
- English: honour, honor
References
p. 1, Arthur; A Short Sketch of his Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Frederick Furnivall ed. EETS. Trübner & Co.: London. 1864.
Old French
Noun
honour m (oblique plural honours, nominative singular honours, nominative plural honour)
- Late Anglo-Norman spelling of honur
- […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
- […] prayed to the king that even the count could be restored to his name and his honour of marquee that he had before
- […] prierent au roi qe mesme le cont purroit estre restorez a ses noun et honour de marquys queux il avoit pardevant.
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merit
English
Etymology
The noun is derived from Middle English merit, merite (“quality of person’s character or conduct deserving of reward or punishment; such reward or punishment; excellence, worthiness; benefit; right to be rewarded for spiritual service; retribution at doomsday; virtue through which Jesus Christ brings about salvation; virtue possessed by a holy person; power of a pagan deity”), from Anglo-Norman merit, merite, Old French merite (“moral worth, reward; merit”) (modern French mérite), from Latin meritum (“that which one deserves, deserts; benefit, reward, merit; service; kindness; importance, value, worth; blame, demerit, fault; grounds, reason”), neuter of meritus (“deserved, earned, obtained; due, proper, right; deserving, meritorious”), perfect passive participle of mere? (“to deserve, earn, obtain, merit; to earn a living”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mer- (“to allot, assign”). The English word is probably cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (méros, “component, part; portion, share; destiny, fate, lot”) and cognate with Old Occitan merit.
The verb is derived from Middle French meriter, Old French meriter (“to deserve, merit”) (modern French mériter), from merite: see further above. The word is cognate with Italian meritare (“to deserve, merit; to be worth; to earn”), Latin merit?re (“to earn regularly; to serve as a soldier”), Spanish meritar (“to deserve, merit; to earn”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: m?r??t, IPA(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?m???t/, /?m???t/
- Rhymes: -???t
- Hyphenation: me?rit
Noun
merit (countable and uncountable, plural merits)
- (countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
- (countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
- Antonym: demerit
- (countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
- Synonyms: excellence, value, worth
- Antonym: demerit
- (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.
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
merit (third-person singular simple present merits, present participle meriting, simple past and past participle merited)
- (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
- (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
- (transitive, obsolete, rare) To reward.
Conjugation
Derived terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- merit (Buddhism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- merit (Catholicism) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- merit (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- merit in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- merit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- merit at OneLook Dictionary Search
Anagrams
- Terim, ermit, miter, mitre, remit, timer
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin meritum.
Pronunciation
Noun
merit m (plural meric)
- merit
Romanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?merit]
Etymology 1
From French mérite.
Noun
merit n (plural merite)
- merit
Declension
Etymology 2
Verb
merit
- first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of merita
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