merItorIousness

[English meritorious; -ne .] The quality or state of being meritorious; the state of deserving well; merit, worthine , desert. "There was a full persuasion of the high meritorious ne of what they did."-South: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 12. *měr'-i-tõr-, *mer-i-tor-ie, adj . [Lat., meri tori us meritorious (q. v.).] Meritorious; deserv ing of reward.