Merit vs Merits - What's the difference?
merit | merits |
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.
Intrinsic advantages, as opposed to political or procedural advantages.
(legal) Substance, distinguished from form or procedure.
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As nouns the difference between merit and merits
is that merit is something deserving positive recognition while merits is plural of lang=en.As verbs the difference between merit and merits
is that merit is to earn or to deserve while merits is third-person singular of merit.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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English
Noun
(head)- I was the boss's pet project, but was rejected on the merits .
- The merits of the case favored the plaintiffs, but their procedural blunders set them back.