meritorious
adjective
deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy.
meritoriousness
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a word derived from
meritorious.
Example Sentences
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Abstention from labour is the convenient evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing; and this insistence on the meritoriousness of wealth leads to a more strenuous insistence on leisure.
From Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
In 1643 a disputation was held, in which Hornejus, a colleague of Calixt, supported his doctrine especially on the meritoriousness of good works.
From History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance to the French Revolution — Volume 1 by James MacCaffrey
Being a pilgrim there is equivalent to being a tourist here, only that to the excitement of doing the country is added a sustaining sense of the meritoriousness of the deed.
From The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell
The principal fruit of justification, according to the Tridentine Council,1220 is the meritoriousness of all good works performed in the state of sanctifying grace.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
With an imaginary reality of conviction, young people are often led into hypocrisy, from a sense of the meritoriousness of that very hypocrisy itself in the eyes of many.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. Hare
