meritable

Adjective

1. Deserving of reward.
   • I euer, euer, and the people generally are very acceptiue and apt to applaud any meritable worke, but there are two ſorts of perſons that moſt commonly are infectious to a whole auditory. - 1609, Ben Jonson, The Case is...
   • He ended up in a meritable fourth position after an 8-year absence. - 2010 June 14, James Waindi, “Phineas Kimathi roars back to Safari Rally”, in The Standard:
   • “I made a list of 20 different topics, sort of genres of email, and I sent those to 10 different “meritable” people–some of whom I know and some who I had to do some work to get to–and they had to scavenge through their...