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