intellectual merit
collocation in Englishmeaningsofintellectualandmerit
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intellectual
adjective
uk/ˌɪn.təlˈek.tʃu.əl/us/ˌɪn.t̬əlˈek.tʃu.əl/
relating to your ability to think and understand things, especially ...
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merit
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈmer.ɪt/us/ˈmer.ɪt/
formal
the quality of being good and ...
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(Definition ofintellectualandmeritfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Yet there are at least three problems with the book that obscure itsintellectualmeritand make it difficult to evaluate its broader impact.
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Once the institution was e freed of its wrongful obligations to despotism, the new institution would rise on a perfected foundation based solely onintellectualmerit.
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Such a proceeding must not infringe the principle that inability to afford the fees does not exclude any of highintellectualmerit.
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Therefore, if bimetallism be argued, it must be argued on grounds which haveintellectualmerit.
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Why isintellectualmerita dirty word—or rather two dirty words?
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I have always belonged to the intellectuals, not through anyintellectualmeritbut through the lack of a union card.
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It is said, of course, that selection byintellectualmeritworks against the poor boy from the poor home, and there is truth in this.
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Entrance to universities now is very largely determined byintellectualmerit.
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Does he accept that his point has not onlyintellectualmerit, but practical validity?
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But that is not to say that selection onintellectualmerit—which, incidentally, is for me an extremely clean word—should not be exercised within a school.
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There is nointellectualmeritin complexity.
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Only items of particular artistic orintellectualmeritwere exempt from the sale.
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