mercy
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English mercy, merci, from Anglo-Norman merci (compare continental Old French merci, mercit), from Latin mercēs (“wages, fee, price”), from merx (“wares, merchandise”). Displaced native Old English mildheortnes (literally "mildheartedness"). Cognate with French merci, whence the doublet merci.
Inflected forms:
form: mercies
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: mercies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: mercying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: mercied
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: mercied
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.
gloss: Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Have mercy on the poor and assist them if you can.
He despaired of God's mercy in the same fact, where this presumed of it; he by a decollation of all hope annihilated his mercy, this by an immoderancy thereof destroyed his justice
gloss: A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Mercy is one of his many virtues.
gloss: Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 1982, Bible (NKJV), Psalm 40:11a
Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord
gloss: A blessing; something to be thankful for.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: It was a mercy that we were not inside when the roof collapsed
gloss: A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: To feel mercy
pos: verb
examples: I despised her; but I mercied her, too, and gave her sweet berries to eat, and led her to my lodge, and said to my best wife, ' Get up from my best skin, for the white squaw is a guest, and is weary.'
At another time, forgetting "his verse," he attempted part of the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, by repeating, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be mercied!"
There is not a less mercied pair of rogues within the walls of Ireland these days than you both.
In vogue, an age, we are interrupted typics of Universal errors; established adults of vaudeville Street shows — but not quite complete or made whole Neither pitied, nor mercied, nor eldered as one Full disguised and costumed.
No thank you, I resent being mercied by a thing that is just a^([sic]) imaginary product of suppressive humans who wanna have power over people!
Thus Jesus represents human nature in a third way — not as mercied outsiders like the Magi, nor as a judged insider like Herod. Jesus is New Israel in person, the fulfilled promise wrapped in the life of a single Jewish child.
For Prevallet, as for Julian, God's love is a “mercying love” in which we are called to live.
Jesus's gaze is “mercying”; he looks upon people and things with a love that sees the fullness of what they are and might be.
gloss: To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy
pos: verb
examples: In the middle of the room is a young Infanta intended for Marguerite Theresa, born in 1651, daughter of Philip the fourth, whose portrait Velasquez took in 1658, to send to Leopold, who had just been elected Emperor of Germanyd and who mercied her in 1666.
Remember that kid that kept yelling that his father was mercied?” “Mercied?” - “The kid that kept saying his father was killed?
'Hah! Good Samaritan indeed! Then why hasn't she mercied me all these years I've been begging for her pepper-soup on credit?
Getting mercied sucks. And truth be told, mercying another team sucks.
This was Suttree's trolley token, the one that mercied him, the one that froze him to death.
gloss: Expressing surprise or alarm.
pos: intj
examples: Mercy! Look at the state of you!
'Three o'clock if possible,' he replied brazenly. 'Six o'clock in any case.'
Clifton gave a little shriek of young-ladylike dismay.
'Mercy! Today?' she exclaimed. 'Why, you dear creature, do you know—'
'I know what you can do when you like,' he got in.
Derived words: angel of mercy
at the mercy of
bemercy
Feast of the Divine Mercy
God-a-mercy
grand mercy
have mercy
house of mercy
lawks a-mercy
laws-a-mercy
may God have mercy on your soul
merciful
mercify
merciless
merciness
mercy bucket
mercy buckets
mercy chair
mercy flush
mercy fuck
mercy killer
mercy killing
mercy-killing
mercy me
mercy rule
mercy sake's alive
mercy seat
nonmercy
throw oneself on someone's mercy
unmercied
unmercy
Translations: