Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who advocates the doctrine of human merit as entitling man to divine rewards, or who depends on merit for salvation: used in contempt.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete One who depends on merit for salvation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete One who depends on
merit forsalvation .
Etymologies
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merit + -monger
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