meritmonger
English
Etymology
merit + monger
Noun
meritmonger (plural meritmongers)
- (obsolete) One who depends on merit for salvation.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Milner to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for meritmonger in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)