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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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esteem
English
Alternative forms
- æsteem (archaic)
- esteeme (obsolete)
Etymology
First at end of 16th century; borrowed from Middle French estimer, from Latin aestim? (“to value, rate, weigh, estimate”); see estimate and aim, an older word, partly a doublet of esteem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?s?ti?m/, /?s?ti?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Noun
esteem (usually uncountable, plural esteems)
- Favourable regard.
Derived terms
- self-esteem
Translations
Verb
esteem (third-person singular simple present esteems, present participle esteeming, simple past and past participle esteemed)
- To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
- Will he esteem thy riches?
- You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
- To regard something as valuable; to prize.
- To look upon something in a particular way.
- Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- 1535, Edmund Bonner, De vera obedientia by Stephen Gardiner (Preface)
- Thou shouldest (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
- Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. V, The English
- And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well-conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
- (obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
Synonyms
- (to regard with respect): respect, revere
- (to regard as valuable): cherish
Antonyms
- (to regard with respect): contemn, despise
- (to regard as valuable): scorn, slight
Translations
References
- John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “esteem”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
Further reading
- esteem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- esteem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- Mestee, mestee
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