We find that mankind are necessary to support the glory of their Creator; we see them become the sole objects of his care; we behold in them the power to gladden or afflict him; we see them meriting his favor and provoking his wrath.
The idea of decency and order, the desire of meriting the approbation of his fellow-citizens, and the fear of being subjected to blame and punishment, are sufficient to govern the actions of every rational man.
Their children early taught to reflect on these things, will find their interest to lie inmeriting the kindness of their parents, and in giving them proofs that the virtues they are taught will be communicated to their posterity.
A monk lapses into a sin meriting the most severe punishment, justly censures the same fault in his abbot, and thus evades the penalty.
Unknown to engage you still augments my score, And gives you scope ofmeriting the more.
Bennett describes as scarcely meriting the name of air.
I do not even know whether I am cited as meriting praise or deserving opprobrium.
But few," answered the monk; "he perished well meriting his fate; and we may reasonably rejoice that the innocent have not suffered instead of the guilty.
Why should they blame their Kings, for fav’ring such, Whom, they have thought, scarce meriting so much?
There is definite infantilism in his work, a distractibility, a discursiveness, that has stood in the way of meriting such estimate.
Now the life to come will be a state not of meriting but of receiving the reward of our merits.
Now in the life to come there is no state of meriting or demeriting.
For thereby they could merit, not indeed eternal reward, but perhaps some temporal meed, the deserving of which was not inconsistent with the deformity of their lie, though this was inconsistent with their meriting an eternal reward.
Nothing prevents a man being debarred by sin from doing what men are under an obligation to do: for instance from meriting eternal life, and from receiving the sacraments of the Church.
This I shall do more clearly, if I place the kingdoms of the East Angles, and of the East Saxons, after the others, as little meriting either my labours, or the regard of posterity.
It was itself only the void which received "the obedience of the One" as the solemeriting cause of peace with God.
In other words, the meriting cause lies wholly in Christ, and wholly outside the man's conduct.
It is respective only of Christ, as to merit; it has to do only, as to personal reception, with the acceptance of the meriting Christ, that is to say with faith in Him.
Their penances were not intended for the mortification of their bodies, but as works meriting for them superior seats in heaven.
What does the work, the ability, of all mankind amount to when it comes to accomplishing or meriting a thing of such magnitude as remission of sins and redemption from death and eternal wrath?
While meriting the surname of the "Silent," he expressed himself effectively in the decisive speech of action.
The hope of meriting their pardon by the Czar inflamed the Cossacks, and the German or Polish captives, who sighed for liberty, considering Siberia the road to their fatherland.
It was therefore a matter of great joy when, in October, 1562, the Duke of Montpensier succeeded, by a ruse meriting the designation of treachery, in throwing himself into La Rochelle with a large body of troops.
But, far from meriting such confidence on the part of his subjects, Charles was indignant at his prolonged resistance, and sent a powerful detachment of guards, with orders to bring him the lieutenant's head.
From Chislett's top step he read Chislett's letter to the delighted throng, a letter in which Potts was said to bear an unblemished reputation, and to be a gentleman and a scholar, amply meriting any trust that might be reposed in him.
I believe my letter spoke of him as an able and graceful pleader, meriting judicial honors, or something of that sort.
It was also an established decree of the Church that heresy was a crime, meriting the severest punishment, both civil and ecclesiastical.
The consciousness of not meriting the evil which one suffers greatly mitigates that evil.
In the carvings of the old Mound-Builders, as in those of the vastly more ancient artists of palæolithic Europe, we have to deal with miniature works of art; but both include productions meriting the designation.
In reference to this subject it was his request, that while no individual should be censured, the name of his friend, Colonel Robert Troup, should be recorded as meriting and receiving his most grateful acknowledgments.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "meriting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: ascribable; attributable; deserving; due; entitled; meritorious
