Merit vs Demonstration - What's the difference?
merit | demonstration |
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.
The act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.
An event at which something will be demonstrated.
A public display of group opinion.
A show of military force.
A mathematical proof.
* , s.v. Thomas Hobbes:
As nouns the difference between merit and demonstration
is that merit is something deserving positive recognition while demonstration is the act of demonstrating; showing or explaining something.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.
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* ----demonstration
English
Noun
(en noun)- I have to give a demonstration to the class tomorrow, and I'm ill-prepared.
- He read the proposition. So he reads the demonstration of it, which referred him back to such a proposition,; which proposition he read.