merit
大学受験長所・価値（⇔demerit）
意味
- 価値,優秀さ;《しばしば複数形で》(賞賛・ほうびに値する)功績,手柄,美点
- 《複数形で》(訴訟などで,物事の)理非(問題になっている事柄そのものの良し悪し,ありのままの事実)
- 〈賞・罰・非難など〉に値する
例文
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
魅力は見る目を打つが、真価は魂を勝ち取る。
To do him justice, he is not without some merits.
公平に言えば、彼にも取りえがないわけではない。
At the meeting I pointed out the plan's merit.
会議ではその計画のメリットを指摘しました。
語源
英語の原文（Wiktionary）
From Middle English merit, merite (“quality of person’s character or conduct deserving of reward or punishment; such reward or punishment; excellence, worthiness; benefit; right to be rewarded for spiritual service; retribution at doomsday; virtue through which Jesus Christ brings about salvation; virtue possessed by a holy person; power of a pagan deity”), from Anglo-Norman merit, merite, Old French merite (“moral worth, reward; merit”) (modern French mérite), from Latin meritum (“that which one deserves, deserts; benefit, reward, merit; service; kindness; importance, value, worth; blame, demerit, fault; grounds, reason”), neuter of meritus (“deserved, earned, obtained; due, proper, right;…