merit
noun
claim to respect and praise; excellence; worth.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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You will have merited your fate, and you will then think upon me and my woes, and will bitterly, but unavailingly, repent your conduct.
From Windsor Castle by Ainsworth, William Harrison