overmerit
English
Etymology
over- + merit
Noun
overmerit (plural not attested)
- Excessive merit.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, OCLC 1086746628:
- an overmerit ; for convenient merit , unto which reward may easily reach
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 overmerit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- overtimer