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A claim to commendation or a reward.
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A mark or token of approbation or to recognize excellence.
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For her good performance in the examination, her teacher gave her ten merits.
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Something deserving or worthy of positive recognition or reward.
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His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
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The sum of all the good deeds that a person does which determines the quality of the person's next state of existence and contributes to the person's growth towards enlightenment.
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to acquire or make merit
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Usually in the plural form the merits: the substantive rightness or wrongness of a legal argument, a lawsuit, etc., as opposed to technical matters such as the admissibility of evidence or points of legal procedure; (by extension) the overall good or bad quality, or rightness or wrongness, of some other thing.
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Even though the plaintiff was ordered by the judge to pay some costs for not having followed the correct procedure, she won the case on the merits.
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The quality or state of deserving retribution, whether reward or punishment.