meriterとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɛɹɪtə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈmɛɹɪtɚ/

名詞

meriter (plural meriters)

1. Someone or something that merits.
   • 1612, Thomas Taylor, A commentarie vpon the Epistle of S. Paul written to Titus‎, L. Greene, page 650:

     Not that it is not wrought as well by the other persons, beeing a worke without themselues: for the Father reneweth as beeing the foundation and fountaine not of the Deitie alone, but of all diuine actions and good things whatsoeuer: and the Son reneweth as the Mediator and meriter of it.

   • 1654, Richard Baxter, “Rich. Baxter’s Account Given to His Reverend Brother Mr T[homas] Blake of the Reasons of his Dissent from the Doctrine of His Exceptions in His Late Treatise of the Covenants. §. 1. Mr Blake Treat. of Covenants, pag. 79.”, in Rich. Baxter’s Apology against the Modest Exceptions of Mr. T[homas] Blake and the Digression of Mr. G[eorge] Kendall. […], London: […] A. M. for Thomas Underhill, […], and Francis Tyton […], →OCLC, page 6:

     If receiving Chriſt as a Satisfier and Meriter, be the only faith that gives right to Juſtification, then on the ſame grounds you muſt ſay, It is the only faith that gives right to further Sanctification and to Glorification: For Chriſt Merited one as vvell as the other.

   • 1657, Francis Bacon, A Confession of the Faith, London: F. Leach, pages 120–121:

     That Iesus the Lord, became, in the Flesh, a Sacrificer, and Sacri­fice for Sin; A Satisfaction, and Price, to the Iustice, of God; A Me­riter, of Glory, and the Kingdom […]

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