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n.

1. Superior quality or worth; excellence: a proposal of some merit; an ill-advised plan without merit.
2. A quality deserving praise or approval; virtue: a store having the merit of being open late.
3. Law A party's strict legal rights, excluding jurisdictional, personal, or technical aspects.
4. The factual content of a matter, apart from emotional, contextual, or formal considerations.
Demonstrated ability or achievement: promotions based on merit alone.
An aspect of character or behavior deserving approval or disapproval. Often used in the plural: judging people according to their merits.
Christianity Spiritual credit granted for good works.
merits
1. Law A party's strict legal rights, excluding jurisdictional, personal, or technical aspects.
2. The factual content of a matter, apart from emotional, contextual, or formal considerations.

v.   mer·it·ed, mer·it·ing, mer·its

v.   tr.
To earn; deserve. See Synonyms at earn¹.

v.   intr.
To be worthy or deserving: Pupils are rewarded or corrected, as they merit.

[Middle English, from Old French merite, reward or punishment, from Latin meritum, from neuter past participle of merēre, to deserve; see (s)mer-² in Indo-European roots.]

mer'it·less adj.

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