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premerit, v. rare.|priːˈmɛrɪt| [pre- A. 1.] trans. To merit or deserve beforehand.
a1628Preston New Covt. (1634) 107 He that is capable of no gift, there can be nothing done to him, to premerit any thing. 1648Eikon Bas. viii. 56 Nor is it strange that they..should not finde mercy enough to forgive him, who so much premerited of them. 1850Marsden Early Purit. (1853) 389 That eternal life was the free gift of God through Christ, and not procured or pre-merited. |