1. meritorious - Adjective
2. meritorious - Adjective Satellite
Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Source: Webster's dictionaryArrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive. Friedrich Nietzsche
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious. Thomas Aquinas
This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color. Andrew Johnson
Let it be given to the most meritorious. Latin Proverb
It is sweet and meritorious to die for one's country. Latin Proverb