demerit

Meanings

Noun

  • A quality of being inadequate; a fault; a disadvantage
  • A mark given for bad conduct to a person attending an educational institution or serving in the army.
  • That which one merits or deserves, either of good or ill; desert.

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Origin

  • From Old French desmerite (modern French démérite).

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