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demerit
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[diːˈmɛrɪt], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a fault or disadvantage
(e.g: the merits and demerits of these proposals)
- a mark awarded against someone for a fault or offence
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Origin
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late Middle English (also in the sense ‘merit’): from Old French desmerite or Latin demeritum ‘something deserved’, neuter past participle of demereri, from de- ‘thoroughly’ (also understood in medieval Latin as denoting reversal) + mereri ‘to merit’
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