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.

Related words: (words related to PROMERIT)

• 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