| 单词 | to merit well |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto merit well ΘΚΠ society > morality > dueness or propriety > [verb (intransitive)] > deserve well or ill earnOE deservec1300 servec1300 servec1350 merit1626 comerit1638 1626 C. Potter tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Quarrels 147 It seemed vnto the Spaniards that they had well merited of the Holy See. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. ii. 99 The Earl of Essex, who had merited very well throughout the whole Affair..was discharged..without ordinary Ceremony. 1719 Free-thinker No. 142. 2 The late Mr. Savery..merited largely from Posterity by the Invention of an Engine. 1767 ‘Coriat Junior’ Another Traveller! I. 120 Those men have merited so well of the republic of letters. 1796 F. Burney Camilla V. x. xiii. 512 If Edgar has merited well of you, why are you parted? 1853 J. G. Whittier tr. H. St. Pierre in Chapel of Hermits Notes 116 My sole study has been to merit well of mankind. < as lemmas |
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