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meriting

meriting is the present participle and gerund of merit.

Meaning of merit

Verb

merit (third-person singular simple present merits, present participle meriting, simple past and past participle merited)

  1. (transitive) To deserve, to earn.
    • Her performance merited wild applause.
    Synonyms:
    bear
  2. (intransitive) To be deserving or worthy.
    • They were punished as they merited.
  3. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To reward.
    • Thus charg’d thy sire, which thou forgett’st: yet now those thoughts appease / That torture thy great spirit with wrath; which if thou wilt give surcease, / The king will merit it with gifts ; and if thou wilt give ear / I’ll tell you how much he offers thee:—yet thou sitt’st angry here.[1611?], Homer, “Book IX”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer, Prince of Poets, […], new...

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Forms of meriting

comparativemore meriting
superlativemost meriting

Words formed from meriting

Questions about meriting

What is meriting the present participle and gerund of?
Meriting is the present participle and gerund of merit.

Words near meriting in the dictionary

  1. meritful
  2. merithal
  3. merithalli
  4. merithallus
  5. merithals
  6. meriting
  7. meritious
  8. meritless
  9. meritlessly
  10. meritlessness
  11. meritmonger

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