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noun

Demerit n.

That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. (Obs.) "By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, (they) acquired this reputation."

That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; the opposite of merit. "They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action." "Secure, unless forfeited by any demerit or offense."

The state of one who deserves ill.

verb

Demerit v. t.

To deserve; said in reference to both praise and blame. (Obs.) "If I have demerited any love or thanks." "Executed as a traitor... as he well demerited."

To depreciate or cry down. (R.)

Demerit v. i. To deserve praise or blame.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... horses, they being staked upon it; it was wheat; All wch injurys, as they do sauor of enemy so I hope they will be looked upon by this honored court according to their natuer and judged according to there demerit, that so your poor suppliant may find some redrese; who is ...

— The Witchcraft Delusion In Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) • John M. Taylor

... compelled to stand by and see a hundred lieutenancies filled in the Regular Army, many in his own regiments, only to find himself overlooked and to be forced to feel that his services however valuable, could not outweigh the demerit of his complexion. ...

— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward

... of numbers. Our executive has carried his fatherly care even beyond this; he has actually suggested the terms of a bargain by which he thinks the difficulty can be settled, which, in addition to the gross assumption of having a voice in a matter that in no manner belongs to him, has the palpable demerit of recommending a pecuniary compromise that is flagrantly wrong as a ...

— The Redskins; or, Indian and Injin, Volume 1. - Being the Conclusion of the Littlepage Manuscripts • James Fenimore Cooper

... themselves with cold meat, washed down with mugs of ale, and cozily talking. They gained indefinitely in my interest from being served by a lame woman, with a rhythmical limp, and I hope it was not for my demerit that I was served apart in the chillier parlor, when I should have liked so much to stay and listen to the rustic tale or talk. The parlor was very depressingly papered, but on its walls I had the exalted company of his Majesty the King, their Royal Highnesses the Prince ...

— Seven English Cities • W. D. Howells

... answered: "The only person in this country that owns anything is the King; in the service of his people he afflicts himself with that burden. All property, of whatsoever kind, is his, to do with as he will. He divides it among his subjects in the ratio of their demerit, as determined by the waguks—local officers—whose duty it is to know personally every one in their jurisdiction. To the most desperate and irreclaimable criminals is allotted the greatest wealth, which is taken from them, little by little, as they ...

— The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce • Ambrose Bierce

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