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▪ I. meriting, vbl. n.|ˈmɛrɪtɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb merit in various senses.
1549Coverdale, etc, Erasm. Par. Ephes. Prol., Stickyng to olde heathenyshe idolatrous worshippinges,..masse meritinges,..popyshe customes [etc.]. 1671Woodhead St. Teresa ii. iii. 20 They must help each other both in suffering, and meriting. 1851C. L. Smith tr. Tasso v. xvi, The other was proud of his own meritings.
▪ II. meriting, ppl. a. Now rare.|ˈmɛrɪtɪŋ|
[f. merit v. + -ing2.]
That merits (something indicated in the context); also in 17th c. often gen., deserving, meritorious.
1603B. Jonson Sejanus v. x, If I could loose All my humanity now, 'twere well to torture So meriting a Traytor. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. i. §3 It hath rather a sounding and vnworthie glorie, than a meriting and substantiall vertue. 1633Rogers Treat. Sacram. i. 86 The Holy Ghost expresses the meriting causes diversly. 1656S. Holland Zara (1719) 87 The most merriting Madam in the world. 1732Swift Advantages repealing Sacram. Test. Wks. 1761 III. 292 There may be another Seminary in View, more numerous and more needy, as well as more meriting. 1742J. Glas Treat. Lord's Supper iii. v. 137 The infinite, atoning, meriting Virtue of the Sacrifice. 1747Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. 243 Punishments are of service to offenders; rewards should be only to the meriting. |