meritorious

The reforms that Howard advocates, meritorious as they are, require political support to be enacted.

He was created baron Tilbury by Charles I for meritorious services.

Economy was his strong point and he observed it in his public and private life with meritorious consistency.

What is there so superior or so meritorious in the attitude of a religious man towards God?

The voluntary renouncement of earthly goods alone is meritorious before God.

Verily this is a meritorious deed, and therefore hast thou been delivered into my hands.