Meanings of whole merit in English

But his whole merit is by no means confined to the faculty of imitation.

Its whole merit is in keeping time accurately.

And to have been lucky enough to seize on this crisis, is, doubtless, the whole merit of the convention.

It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The whole merit of the transaction was due to the perseverance and address, of Barneveldt acting on the weakness and the embarrassments of King James.

This motion can be made while an amendment is pending, and it opens the whole merits of the question to debate.