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mercy

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"Compassion"

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɜːsi/Part of speech nounSorted cemryStarts with MEnds with Y1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice

Word origin

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.

Used in a sentence

  • She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.
  • 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

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