meritorious

• Patronage can only be expected to follow what is eminently meritorious, and more especially that general patronage diffused through the more respectable ranks of society, which is to professional merit, what the ocean is to the earth;—the great fund from whence it must ever be refreshed, and without whose abundance, conveyed through innumerable channels, every thing must presently become dry, and all productions cease to exist Chap. —  The Life, Studies, And Works Of Benjamin West, Esq.
• This will be the more meritorious, as I have nothing to give you in exchange. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies
• What one party calls meritorious, the other denominates flagitious. —  Letters from an American Farmer
• Still more meritorious are the efforts of Joel Sirkes (died in 1640 at Cracow), who often skilfully altered Rashi's text for the better By a curious turn in affairs it was the Christians who in the province of exegesis took up the legacy bequeathed by Rashi. —  Rashi
• The whole of the brave musical activity of Mosonyi at Budapest is most honorable and meritorious, as much by his teaching as by his numerous compositions of Church music, orchestral music, and piano music. —  Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End"

Roget's II: The New Thesaurus

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