immerit en · NOUN
Etymology
From im- + merit.
Meanings
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(uncountable) 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, a letter [to unknown]