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(senseid) A quality of being inadequate; a disadvantage, a fault.
(RQ:Temple Miscellanea) ſhould be as much their Property, as any diviſions of Land or of Stock that are made to the Sons; and the Poſſeſſion as ſecure, unleſs forfeited by any demerit or offence againſt the cuſtoms of the Family, which grow with time to be the Orders of this little State.
(RQ:Burke Revolution in France)
A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
2002, (w), Address at West Point|Commencement Address at West Point:
- A few of you have followed in the path of the perfect West Point graduate, Robert E. Lee, who never received a single demerit in four years. Some of you followed in the path of the imperfect graduate, (w), who had his fair share of demerits, and said the happiest day of his life was "the day I left West Point." (Laughter.)
That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.
(RQ:Marston Insatiate Countesse)
(RQ:Plutarch Holland Morals)'' the tyrant of the Lindians, and then ''(w)'' the tyrant likewiſe of ''Corinth'' (who had neither of them any one jot of vertue or wiſdome) by the greatneſſe of their power, by the number of their friends, and by many benefits and demerits whereby they obliged their adherents, acquired forcibly this reputation, in deſpite of all uſurped the name of Sages; and to this purpoſe cauſed to be ſpred ſowen and divulged throughout all ''Greece'' certaine odde ſentences and notable ſayings, as well as thoſe of others, wherewith the former Sages, above named were diſcontented.
To deserve.
{{quote-text|en|year=1840|author=Alexander Campbell; Dolphus Skinner|title=A discussion of the doctrines of the endless misery and universal salvation|page=351
To depreciate or cry down.
{{quote-text|en|year=1576|author=John Woolton|title=The Christian Manuell
lack of merit