Word Meanings - MERITMONGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.

Related words: (words related to MERITMONGER)

• MERITHAL; MERITHALLUS
  See INTERNODE
• MERITORY
  Meritorious.
• MERITOT
  A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
• MERITABLE
  Deserving of reward.
• MERITMONGER
  One who depends on merit for salvation. Milner.
• MERITEDLY
  By merit; deservedly.
• SALVATIONIST
  An evangelist, a member, or a recruit, of the Salvation Army.
• MERITORIOUS
  Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n.
• SALVATION
  The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness. To earn salvation for the sons of men. Milton. Godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation. 2. Cor. vii. 10. 3. Saving
• 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
• 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
• PROMERIT
  1. To oblige; to confer a favor on. Bp. Hall. 2. To deserve; to procure by merit. Davenant.
• OVERMERIT
  Excessive merit. Bacon.
• IMMERITED
  Unmerited. Charles I.
• EMERITED
  Considered as having done sufficient public service, and therefore honorably discharged. Evelyn.
• DEMERIT
  demerit , fr. L. demerere to deserve well, LL., to 1. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert. By many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, acquired this reputation. Holland. 2. That which deserves
• PROTOMERITE
  The second segment of one of the Gregarinæ.
• IMMERIT
  Want of worth; demerit. Suckling.
• IMMERITOUS
  Undeserving. Milton.