单词 | self-merit |
释义 | > as lemmasself-merit self-merit n. Brit. , U.S. ΚΠ 1613 W. Westerman Iacobs Well 30 They haue digged pits vnto themselues, which wil hold no water of saluation,..in selfe-merits, saints-merits, in supererogations, satisfactions, pardons, indulgences. 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator (1748) II. x. 162 Vanity, and a high opinion of self-merit, sometimes renders one party easy and contented. 1841 W. Mason Job Abbott 44 So far as the disavowal of self-merit goes, thought Job, this is very good. 2008 Jrnl. Business Ethics 81 334/2 A person's sense of self-merit is substantially in league with socially affirming outcomes. < as lemmas |
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