释义 |
meriˈtoriousness [f. meritorious a. + -ness.] The state or quality of being meritorious.
1639Fuller Holy War iii. x. (1640) 125 These murderers being instantly put to death, gloried in the meritoriousnesse of their suffering. a1708Bp. Beveridge Thes. Theol. (1711) III. 244 The reality and meritoriousness of Christ's death and Passion. 1884A. R. Pennington Wiclif viii. 271 The study of the works of that holy man..led him..to oppose the meritoriousness of good works. |