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demerit

[dih-mer-it] / dɪˈmɛr ɪt /


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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

Demerit, the natural right which others have to punish us, 723-l.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

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

Evil is hereby excluded, with all Merit and Demerit; and likewise all preference in the Esteem of God, of one Part of the Creation to another.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.




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