Immerit

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Lack of worth; demerit. uncountable

    "When I receive your lines, my dear Princess, and find there expressions of a passion; though reason and my own immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the cozenage so pleasing to me […]"

Example

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"When I receive your lines, my dear Princess, and find there expressions of a passion; though reason and my own immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the cozenage so pleasing to me […]"

Etymology

From im- + merit.

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