demerit
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Scene of the attempted break was the Detention Demerit Building, popularly known as Cherry Hill, where the prison's most unruly criminals are kept.
From Time Magazine Archive
Section III.—Of the influence of Fortune upon the sentiments of mankind, with regard to the Merit and the Demerit of actions.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
Demerit for absences and other irregularities is also marked in like manner, and made the basis of discipline.
From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Hall, Benjamin Homer
The Moral Sentiment made up of a variety of moral judgments—Good and Evil, Obligation, Liberty, Merit and Demerit.
From Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics by Bain, Alexander
Of Merit and Demerit; or of the objects of reward and punishment.
From An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition by Ferguson, Adam
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