overmerit
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
overmerit (plural not attested)
- Excessive merit.
- 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:
- an overmerit ; for convenient merit , unto which reward may easily reach
References edit
- “overmerit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.