Merit: alternatives and connections

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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To ask or call for with authority; to claim or seek from, as by authority or right; to claim, as something due; to call for urgently or peremptorily;…

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To roll or fold up; to wind round; to entwine.

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To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable.

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A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Something demanded or asserted; especially, a position or supposition assumed without proof, or one which is considered as self-evident; a truth to w…

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To demand; to insist upon having; to claim as by right and authority; to exact; as, to require the surrender of property.

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Taken.

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To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and…

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The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

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That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.

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Deserving of reward.

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Deserving of reward.

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Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.

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Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.

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To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of…

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Manly strength or courage; bravery; daring; spirit; valor.

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That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

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That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

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