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merit | repute | Related terms |

Merit is a related term of repute.


As a proper noun merit

is .

As a verb repute is

.

merit

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something deserving positive recognition.
    • His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
  • Something worthy of a high rating.
  • A claim to commendation or reward.
  • The quality of deserving reward.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
  • Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
    • His teacher gave him ten merits .
  • * Prior
    • those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
  • (obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
  • * Shakespeare
    • 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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    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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.
    • (Chapman)

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    repute

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • Reputation, especially a good reputation.
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  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

    • Related terms

    * disrepute * reputable * reputation * ill repute

    Verb

    (reput)
  • To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  • To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
  • * Bible, Job xviii. 3
    • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
  • * Shakespeare
    • The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

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