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Word Meanings - PROMERIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.

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  • CONFERENCE
    A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters. 6. A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are. Conference meeting,
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • FAVOR
    Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
  • OBLIGER
    One who, or that which, obliges. Sir H. Wotton.
  • MERIT
    deserve, merit; prob. originally, to get a share; akin to Gr. Market, 1. The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert. Here may men see how sin hath his merit. Chaucer. Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that
  • DESERVE
    1. 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 value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
  • FAVORITE
    Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
  • OBLIGEMENT
    Obligation. I will not resist, therefore, whatever it is, either of divine or human obligement, that you lay upon me. Milton.
  • FAVORABLE
    1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
  • CONFERRABLE
    Capable of being conferred.
  • MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
    See INTERNODE
  • CONFEREE
    1. One who is conferred with, or who takes part in a conference; as, the conferees on the part of the Senate. 2. One upon whom something is conferred.
  • MERITORY
    Meritorious.
  • DESERVEDLY
    According to desert ; justly.
  • MERITOT
    A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
  • CONFERENTIAL
    Relating to conference. Clarke.
  • CONFERVA
    Any unbranched, slender, green plant of the fresh-water algae. The word is frequently used in a wider sense.
  • FAVOREDNESS
    Appearance.
  • MERITABLE
    Deserving of reward.
  • TEMERITY
    Unreasonable contempt of danger; extreme venturesomeness; rashness; as, the temerity of a commander in war. Syn. -- Rashness; precipitancy; heedlessness; venturesomeness. -- Temerity, Rashness. These words are closely allied in sense, but have a
  • EMERITUS
    Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church. (more info) emerere, emereri, to obtain by service, serve out one's
  • UNFAVORABLE
    Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
  • DISOBLIGER
    One who disobliges.
  • UNDESERVER
    One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
  • PROMERIT
    1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.
  • OVERMERIT
    Excessive merit. Bacon.
  • DISOBLIGE
    1. To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to. Those . . . who slight and disoblige their friends, shall infallibly come

 

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