Honour vs Merit - What's the difference?
honour | merit | Related terms |
* 1902 , Richard Francis Weymouth, Translation of the New Testament of the Bible , Book 60, 1 Peter 2:4:
* (rfdate), Shakespeare:
* (rfdate), Milton:
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5
, passage=Although the Celebrity was almost impervious to sarcasm, he was now beginning to exhibit visible signs of uneasiness, the consciousness dawning upon him that his eccentricity was not receiving the ovation it merited .}}
To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
Honour is a related term of merit.
As proper nouns the difference between honour and merit
is that honour is , a less common spelling of honor while merit is .honour
English
Noun
- Come to Him, the ever-living Stone, rejected indeed by men as worthless, but in God's esteem chosen and held in honour .
- If she have forgot / Honour and virtue.
- Godlike erect, with native honour clad.
merit
English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
Synonyms
* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)