Entitles [verb]

That a Wesleyan missionary ventured, entitles him to the esteem of mankind.

Got more nerve than I thought he had, and although it may make him more dangerous, yet it entitles him to more respect.

Or felo de se; for in a case of suicide the acquittal of the deceased by a coroner's jury entitles him to Christian burial.

What is there in Shakspeare's view of human character which entitles him to this high praise?

His chief work, which entitles him to brief notice here, is the "Tagmule ha-Nefesh" just mentioned.

Among the minor poems of Bryant, none has so much impressed me as the one which he entitles "June."

There is nothing in your station, in your abilities, or in your character, which entitles you to respect.

That kind of language belongs to persons whose eloquence entitles them to a free use of epithets.

Mischievous Walter was, if the unquenchable avidity for excitement which reigns at fourteen entitles a boy to such an aspersion.

The trust of the boys, in their winter mounts, entitles the latter to a prominent place in the line of defense.