demerit

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.

   “They see no merit or demerit in any man or any action.”

2. isim A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
3. isim That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

   “I fall to riſe, mount to thy maker, ſpirit, /. Leaue here thy body, death ha's her demerit.”

4. fiil To deserve.

   “You hold that every sin is an infinite evil, demeriting endless punishment.”

5. fiil To depreciate or cry down.

   “Faith by her own dignity and worthiness doth not demerit justice and righteousness; but receiveth and embraceth the same offered unto us in the gospel […]”