merited's Usage Examples:

While it lacked the high amount of blood and gore that would have earned it a mature rating, its content still merited a CERO rating of B, indicating an age range of early teens and up.

Grace in Christianity is the free and unmerited favour of God as manifested in the salvation of sinners and the bestowing.

The response from regulators was to contend that continued violent crime against cab drivers (despite partition mandates) merited a new lock-box requirement.

stage might endure for many hours, unknown to the patient but little comporting with the dignity and serenity which he so richly merited and which demanded.

The BBC's Clive Everton commented that the circumstances of the final two frames merited investigation.

It is the teaching that salvation comes by divine grace or "unmerited favor" only, not as something merited by the sinner.

Although the sinner is justified by the justice of Christ, inasmuch as the Redeemer has merited for him or her the grace of justification (causa meritoria), nevertheless he or she is formally justified and made holy by his or her own personal justice and holiness (causa formalis).

His performances merited inclusion in the national team and attracted the attention of Liverpool's manager Graeme Souness, who bought Bjørnebye for £600,000 less than one year after moving to Rosenborg.

He fought under the command of consul Lucius Mummius Achaicus whose ultimate victory in the war against the Achaean League delayed Macedonicus from celebrating immediately the honours of the Triumph which his success at the battle of Scarpheia merited.

In the final, Porter faced Ole Ritter, later holder of the outdoor hour record, of Denmark and beat him by eight seconds to win his first world title, an achievement that merited the Bidlake Memorial Prize for 1968.

By 1957, it had "fallen into an unmerited neglect".

Davidson vehemently denied the charge, claiming that jokes about blind people and cancer sufferers would have merited a mass walkout.

urban equivalent of a landscape Scapegoating, singling out one person for unmerited negative treatment or blame Soundscape, a part of an acoustic environment.

Synonyms:

deserved, condign,

Antonyms:

gratuitous, undeserved, unmerited,