Meritorious Definition

mĕrĭ-tôrē-əs
adjective
Having merit; deserving reward, praise, etc.
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Origin of Meritorious

  • From Middle English, borrowed between 1375 and 1425 from Latin meritōrius (“earning money"), from meritus, past participle of mereō (“to earn")

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Latin meritōrius earning money from meritus past participle of merēre to earn merit

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Meritorious Sentence Examples

  • The order is conferred for long and meritorious military service.

  • Lastly, they can be used to reward employees for particularly meritorious work.

  • The Japanese would not issue military medals, since they thought that all of the Emperor's warriors were equally meritorious.

  • Then follows the bier, borne on the shoulders of friends, who are relieved by the passers-by, such an act being deemed highly meritorious.

  • Like Shozan, he is still very far from his original, but, also like ShOzan, he produces highly meritorious pieces in his efforts to reach an ideal that will probably continue to elude him for ever.

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