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de·mer·it    Audio Help   [di-mer-it] Pronunciation Key
–noun
1.a mark against a person for misconduct or deficiency: If you receive four demerits during a term, you will be expelled from school.
2.the quality of being censurable or punishable; fault; culpability.
3.Obsolete. merit or desert.
[Origin: 1350–1400; ME (< OF desmerite) < ML démeritum fault, n. use of neut. ptp. of L démerére to earn, win the favor of (dé- taken in ML as privative, hence pejorative). See de-, merit]

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de·mer·i·to·ri·ous    Audio Help   [di-mer-i-tawr-ee-uhs, -tohr-] Pronunciation Key, adjective
de·mer·i·to·ri·ous·ly, adverb
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