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meritoriously

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables
mer-i-to-ri-ous-ly
IPA
18
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

adv

In a meritorious manner.

Etymology

From Middle English meritoriously, equivalent to meritorious + -ly.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

more meritoriously (comparative) most meritoriously (superlative)

Synonyms

correctly deservingly rightly becomingly chastely continently decently decorously dutifully duteously meritoriously modestly

Questions

What does meritoriously mean?
In a meritorious manner.
Where does meritoriously come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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