merit suomeksi - Sanakirja.org (englanti-suomi)

(countable) A claim to commendation or a reward.
(countable) A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
(countable, uncountable) Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
(uncountable, Buddhism, Jainism) The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
(uncountable, law) Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
(countable, obsolete) The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.

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.
Her performance merited its wild applause.
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.

Partisiipin perfekti	merited	Imperfekti	merited
Partisiipin preesens	meriting	Monikko	merits
Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	merits	Yksikön kolmannen persoonan indikatiivin preesens	meriteth (vanhahtava)

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