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Word Meanings - PREMERIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To merit or deserve beforehand. Eikon Basi

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  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • DESERVE
    1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
  • EIKON
    An image or effigy; -- used rather in an abstract sense, and rarely for a work of art.
  • MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
    See INTERNODE
  • MERITORY
    Meritorious.
  • DESERVEDLY
    According to desert ; justly.
  • MERITOT
    A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
  • MERITABLE
    Deserving of reward.
  • MERITMONGER
    One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.
  • MERITEDLY
    By merit; deservedly.
  • EIKONOGEN
    The sodium salt of a sulphonic acid of a naphthol, C10H5 SO3Na used as a developer.
  • BEFOREHAND
    1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
  • MERITORIOUS
    Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n.
  • DESERVER
    One who deserves.
  • MERIT
    deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
  • TEMERITY
    Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
  • EMERITUS
    Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
  • UNDESERVER
    One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
  • PROMERIT
    1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.
  • OVERMERIT
    Excessive merit. Bacon.
  • UNDESERVE
    To fail to deserve. Milton.
  • IMMERITED
    Unmerited. Charles I.

 

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