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Definition of Demerit
1. Noun. A mark against a person for misconduct or failure; usually given in school or armed forces. "Ten demerits and he loses his privileges"
2. Noun. The quality of being inadequate or falling short of perfection. "He knew his own faults much better than she did"
Definition of Demerit
1. n. That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
2. v. t. To deserve; -- said in reference to both praise and blame.
3. v. i. To deserve praise or blame.
Definition of Demerit
1. Noun. A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Demerit
1. to lower in rank or status [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demerit
Literary usage of Demerit
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1900)
"For playing truant: 20 demerit marks. When leave of absence is asked for in person
with a good reason given—either just before or at the point of taking ..."
2. Elements of Mental Philosophy: Abridged and Designed as a Text-book for by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1854)
"Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit. Closely connected with the ideas
of right and wrong are the ideas of moral MERIT and demerit. ..."
3. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit. Closely connected with the ideas
of right and wrong' are the ideas of moral MERIT and demerit. ..."
4. Mental Philosophy: Embracing the Three Departments of the Intellect by Thomas Cogswell Upham (1869)
"Origin of the ideas of moral merit and demerit. Closely connected with the ideas
of right and wrong are the ideas of moral MERIT and demerit. ..."
5. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"demerit. It was plainly an inconvenient arrangement, a squandering of the wealth
of the language, that ' merit' and ' demerit' should mean one and the same ..."
6. The Works of Jonathan Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life and Character by Jonathan Edwards, Tryon Edwards (1854)
"MERIT OF VIRTUE AND demerit OF SIN. IT has been supposed by some, that if the
demerit of sin be infinite, the merit of the creature's virtue must also, ..."
7. Ethics, General and Special by Owen Aloysius Hill (1920)
"MERIT and demerit are fruits of morality. A man can merit with God and with ...
Merit and demerit result from imputability, that quality which makes man the ..."
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