LekhoriLekhoriA claim to commendation or a reward.
[R]eputation is an idle and moſt falſe impoſition , oft got without merit and loſt without deſeruing.
A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
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 spi...
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To be deserving or worthy.
They were punished as they merited.
To reward.
Thus charg’d thy sire, which thou forgett’st: yet now those thoughts appease / That torture thy great spirit with wrath; which if thou wilt give surcease, / The king will merit it with gifts ; and if thou wilt give ear / I’ll tell you how much he offers thee:—yet thou sitt’st angry here.