Adjective : to receive a gift for meritorious service. From Dictionary.com.
Haha, that reminds me of the Third Circuit test for failure to prosecute: one of the factors is “meritoriousness of the case”. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Nebraska State Senator Sues God:] Reference
The major institutions that produce our most elite officers come from a position of absolute meritoriousness as opposed to wealth or contacts. From Wordnik.com. [Rod Lurie: The Military Is More Liberal Than You Think] Reference
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Legal positivism requires only that it be in virtue of its facticity rather than its meritoriousness that something is law, and that we can describe that facticity without assessing its merits. From Wordnik.com. [Legal Positivism] Reference
To give a full expression to the utmost intelligence, potency, amiability, purity, meritoriousness and majesty that can reside in the capability -- rooms of a human soul -- would be equivalent to picturing the imaginable or to portraying the infinite, and to do either the one or the other is impossible. From Wordnik.com. [The Jericho Road] Reference
This annuls all special priesthood and the meritoriousness of all individual actions or sufferings. From Wordnik.com. [The Theology of Schleiermacher: A Condensed Presentation of His Chief Work, "The Christian Faith"] Reference
The meritoriousness of the sacrifice was regarded as to a great extent dependent on its costliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
Divine grace impairs neither the freedom of the human will nor the meritoriousness of good works, but that it is grace which causes the merits in us. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
As the main purpose of this article is to vindicate the Catholic doctrine of the meritoriousness of good works, the subject is treated under the four following heads. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
'I fail to see the striking meritoriousness of all that,' Mr. Athel observed, put into a good humour by the result, and consequently allowing himself a little captiousness. From Wordnik.com. [A Life's Morning] Reference
Being a pilgrim there is equivalent to being a tourist here, only that to the excitement of doing the country is added a sustaining sense of the meritoriousness of the deed. From Wordnik.com. [The Soul of the Far East] Reference
The Pelagianizing view of the moral ability of the human will and of the meritoriousness of outward works lay already at the basis of the entire system of monkish holiness, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Ethics. Volume I.���History of Ethics.] Reference
My uncle's voice at this moment called loudly from below, and Aunt Harriet hurried off with a conscious meritoriousness about her, becoming a lady who had married the right man, and took great care of him. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances] Reference
Abstention from labour is the convenient evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing; and this insistence on the meritoriousness of wealth leads to a more strenuous insistence on leisure. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
And this inability to admit the meritoriousness or even the legitimacy of anything that differed from what he was accustomed to, was not at all peculiar to this great pianist; we see it every day in men greatly his inferiors. From Wordnik.com. [Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician]
This topic need scarcely be pursued further here; but the remark may not be out of place that all that considerable body of morals that clusters about the concept of an inviolable ownership is itself a psychological precipitate of the traditional meritoriousness of wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Theory of the Leisure Class] Reference
If therefore "the reformation was mainly a struggle against the doctrine of merit" (Realencyklopädie, loc. cit., p. 506) this only proves that the Council of Trent defended against unjustified innovations the old doctrine of the meritoriousness of good works, founded alike on Scripture and. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
Finally, the right corresponding to the object of distributive justice is the defence of the members against the community or its leaders; they must not be laden with public burdens beyond their powers, and must receive as much of the public goods as becomes the condition of their meritoriousness arid services. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
(especially as regards the freedom of the will, the meritoriousness of good works, and justification). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Since the meritoriousness of good works supposes the state of justification, or, what amounts to the same, the possession of sanctifying grace, supernatural merit is only an effect or fruit of the state of grace (cf. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference
No sooner did he shape the letters with his mouth, and with his mind shape the concepts of commandment, meritoriousness, and charity which a mitzvah encompassed, than he felt he’d made a small recompense for a wickedness of which it was not finally for him to say that he was entirely innocent. From Wordnik.com. [Kalooki Nights] Reference
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