Merit vs Prize - What's the difference?
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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.
That which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.
* Spenser
(military, nautical) Anything captured by a belligerent using the rights of war; especially, property captured at sea in virtue of the rights of war, as a vessel.
An honour or reward striven for in a competitive contest; anything offered to be competed for, or as an inducement to, or reward of, effort.
* Dryden
That which may be won by chance, as in a lottery.
Anything worth striving for; a valuable possession held or in prospect.
* Bible, Phil. iii. 14
A contest for a reward; competition.
A lever; a pry; also, the hold of a lever. Also spelled prise.
To consider highly valuable; to esteem.
* Shakespeare
* Dryden
(obsolete) To set or estimate the value of; to appraise; to price; to rate.
* Bible, Zech. xi. 13
* Shakespeare
To move with a lever; to force up or open; to prise or pry.
(obsolete) To compete in a prizefight.
In obsolete terms the difference between merit and prize
is that merit is the quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert while prize is to compete in a prizefight.As nouns the difference between merit and prize
is that merit is something deserving positive recognition while prize is that which is taken from another; something captured; a thing seized by force, stratagem, or superior power.As verbs the difference between merit and prize
is that merit is to earn or to deserve while prize is to consider highly valuable; to esteem.merit
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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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(wikipedia prize)Etymology 1
From (etyl) prise, from (etyl) ; see prehend. Compare prison, apprise, comprise, enterprise, purprise, reprisal, suprise, etc.Noun
(en noun)- His own prize , / Whom formerly he had in battle won.
- I fought and conquered, yet have lost the prize .
- I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
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Derived terms
* booby prize * consolation prize * door prize * prizewinner, prize winner * prize-winning * pushing prizeUsage notes
Do not confuse with .See also
* prise * priceEtymology 2
From (etyl) prysen, from (etyl) ; see price. Compare praise, appraise, apprize.Verb
(priz)- [I] do love, prize , honour you.
- I prized your person, but your crown disdain.
- A goodly price that I was prized at.
- I prize it [life] not a straw, but for mine honour.