immerit

Lack of worth; demerit.

Noun

  1. Lack of worth; demerit.
    • When I receive your lines, my dear Princess, and find there expressions of a passion; though reason and my own immerit tell me, it must not be for me; yet is the cozenage so pleasing to me […] - a. 1641, John Suckling,...

Origin

From im- + merit.