Merit
How words are described
| special | special merit | special purpose |
| exact | exact merit | exact purpose |
| particular | particular merit | particular purpose |
| common | common merit | common purpose |
| Other adjectives: true, single, obvious, actual, real, little, new, major, useful, sole, general, possible, final, greater, intended, scientific, comedic. | ||
Common collocations
| death | merit death | purpose death |
Both words in one sentence
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The purpose of the Tailor-Made Prison in a story is usually one to give a villain street cred: he must be really bad to merit it.
Source: Tailor-Made Prison - His merit as a satirist can be summed up by his description of lawyers: "A society of men among us, bred from their youth in the art of proving, by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black, and black white, according as they are paid."
Source: Authors -
In Desolate Era, the Daoist themes include an individual's karma and it plays such a role that the purpose of one organization, the Raindragon Guard, is to perform tasks of karmic merit so that would provide the imperial family with good luck.
Source: Karma Meter
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Purpose and Merit. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/merit/purpose
Merit & Purpose. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/merit/purpose>.
Purpose or Merit. 2016. Accessed August 16, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/merit/purpose.
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