Bible Dictionaries
Demerit

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. i.) To deserve praise or blame.

(2):

(n.) To deserve; - said in reference to both praise and blame.

(3):

(n.) To depreciate or cry down.

(4):

(n.) The state of one who deserves ill.

(5):

(n.) That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

(6):

(n.) That which deserves blame; ill desert; a fault; a vice; misconduct; - the opposite of merit.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Demerit'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​d/demerit.html. 1828.