Merited is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MERITED in dictionary:

VERB:
• MERIT, to deserve
• deserve or be worthy of (reward, punishment, or attention)
NOUN:
• the quality of being particularly good or worthy, especially so as to deserve praise or reward
• a good feature or point
• a pass grade in an examination denoting above-average performance
• the intrinsic rights and wrongs of a case, outside of any other considerations
• good deeds entitling someone to a future reward from God.
ADJECTIVE:
• properly deserved
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to earn

Words related to MERITED

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Words that contain MERITED

demerited13 unmerited12 unmeritedly17

How to use MERITED in a sentence

• By his seditious behavior he merited to be shot or hanged at Spithead before they left it, and afterwards, for the like practices at St.
• The battle lasted all day, and in the evening Rishnawad bestowed upon him the praise which he merited.
• He has always properly appreciated the presents given him, and by his temperate, consistent, and respectable course of life, merited attention.
• Calenus had so acted that he might seem to have taken a merited vengeance upon them.
• Channing spoke beautifully in closing, paying a warm and merited compliment to Dr.
• They wanted to put the Cap-Sheaf on a Profitable Season, and at the same time hand the Merited Rebuke to some of the Husbands and Brothers who had been making Funny Cracks.
• I had come back in good spirits, thinking of the prosperity which I was happy to believe I had merited by a conscientious performance of all my duties.
• The manner in which he conducted during his residence with us has merited our esteem and entire approbation, and it is with pleasure that we now give him this testimony of it.
• The story of Bertram and Diana had been told before of Mariana and Angelo, and, to confess the truth, scarcely merited to be heard a second time.
• I told the judge, though he would not admit me at the gate, I hoped I had committed no crime while alive which merited my being wise any longer.
• Your agents have confessed, and nothing can save you from the merited punishment of your crimes.
• To these brave men, Lord Nelson paid the just and honoured tribute of applause which their conduct merited, in the following very flattering epistle to Captain Troubridge.
• The circumstances unfolded in the above letters very sufficiently account for the failure of success, while they demonstrate how well it had been merited.
• People began to speak of him as a most admirable young man, and indeed in some respects he merited the praise.
• He took the unheard-of ground that, in the public service, as in any other, good work merited advancement, no matter what the politics of the individual might be.
• They have astonished military circles by their valorous actions and daring enterprises, and have merited imperishable honour and glory.
• Hence if He merited by charity, it does not follow that the merit and the reward are the same.
• But it is superfluous to merit over again what has been merited before.
• He conferred on his allies very liberal rewards, and granted the company such extraordinary privileges, as fully demonstrated how justly he merited their assistance.
• But what did this miserable Portuguese intend? Who had merited his hatred? The young novice repeated to himself, that he alone had incurred it.
• One of my patrons became my implacable enemy because I gave his chip-of-the-old-block son some much merited discipline.
• Strange and oblique ideas may slowly win a triumph that is not wholly merited and may not prove enduring.
• The Folsoms never sold a slave except he merited this dire punishment in some way.
• Nor is it surprising that Cavour attributed more weight to these expressions than they merited.
• What brought thee here I know not, unless it were to meet the death thou hast merited at my hands.
• It was at this period in his history that he married, and then the punishment he had so justly merited overtook him.
• You have probably carried this lying story elsewhere and have received what you merited.

Similar words containing MERIT without suffix ed

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