The word for today is…
meritorious (adjective):
: deserving of honor or esteem
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : People who demonstrate meritorious behavior certainly “earn” our respect, and you can use that fact to remember that meritorious comes from the Latin verb merere, which means “to earn.” Nowadays, the rewards earned for meritorious acts are likely to be of an immaterial nature: gratitude, admiration, praise, etc. But that wasn’t always so. The history of meritorious recalls a reward more concrete in nature: money. In Latin, meritorious literally means “bringing in money.”
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