Definition of "meritoriousness" []

• The property of being meritorious. (noun)

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• "This gives what Bentham calls the 'meritoriousness' [402] of the disposition."
• "Helen Zille wants to debate the meritoriousness of providing state funded health care to those who make wrong lifestyle choices."
• "The major institutions that produce our most elite officers come from a position of absolute meritoriousness as opposed to wealth or contacts."