Merit

Merit has been describ’d [by painters and sculptors] in the figure of a person of the most venerable aspect, in costly apparel, crowned with laurel, and standing on the summit of a high rock, to shew how difficult it is to attain true merit; but at the same time, how eminent the person is, who is possess’d of it. Holding in one hand a sword, and in the other a book to shew, that merit may be obtained either by arms or by arts.

Definition taken from The Universal Etymological English Dictionary, edited by Nathan Bailey (1736)

Meekness [in Painting and Sculpture] * Meˊritot