Merit vs Citation - What's the difference?
merit | citation |
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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To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
An official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.
The act of citing a passage from a book, or from another person, in his own words.
An entry in a list of source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
The passage or words quoted; quotation.
Enumeration; mention; as, a citation of facts.
A reference to decided cases, or books of authority, to prove a point in law.
A commendation in recognition of some achievement, or a formal statement of an achievement.
As nouns the difference between merit and citation
is that merit is something deserving positive recognition while citation is an official summons or notice given to a person to appear; the paper containing such summons or notice.As a verb merit
is to earn or to deserve.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
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* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)