MERITED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does merited mean? 

• MERITED (adjective)
  The adjective MERITED has 1 sense:

1. properly deserved

  Familiarity information: MERITED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MERITED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Properly deserved

Synonyms:

deserved; merited

Context example:

a merited success

Similar:

condign (fitting or appropriate and deserved; used especially of punishment)

Antonym:

unmerited (not merited or deserved)

 Context examples 

When she came to that part of the letter in which her family were mentioned in terms of such mortifying, yet merited reproach, her sense of shame was severe.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

You may have done wrong with regard to Mr. Dixon, but this is a punishment beyond what you can have merited!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His complexion was white with agitation, and he looked as if fearful of his reception, and conscious that he merited no kind one.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

“This base peasant is too small a matter for old comrades to quarrel over. But he hath betrayed us, and certes he hath merited a dog's death.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

First of all, as to your return to my house after your most justifiable expulsion—he protruded his beard, and stared at me as one who challenges and invites contradiction—after, as I say, your well-merited expulsion.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For, though your accusations were ill-founded, formed on mistaken premises, my behaviour to you at the time had merited the severest reproof.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

This chanced to come to Simon's ears when we were at Bordeaux together, and he would have it that we should ride to Cardillac with a good hempen cord, and give this Gourval such a scourging as he merited.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

That I merited all I endured, I acknowledged—that I could scarcely endure more, I pleaded; and the alpha and omega of my heart's wishes broke involuntarily from my lips in the words—'Jane! Jane! Jane!'

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)