meritorious
adjective
deserving praise, reward, esteem, etc.; praiseworthy.
meritoriousness
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a word derived from
meritorious.
Example Sentences
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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
His dispositions are infinitely pure, and his will freely determines to do right; it is not compelled or necessitated, for then his infinite meritoriousness would cease.
From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan
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
Other Patristic texts inculcating the meritoriousness of good works performed in the state of grace can be found in Bellarmine, De Iustif.,
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
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
