Noun: mercy
| Singular | mercy |
| Plural | mercies |
Sample Sentences
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She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.
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Have mercy on the poor and assist them if you can.
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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 [1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:]
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Mercy is one of his many virtues.
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1982, Bible (NKJV), Psalm 40:11a
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Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord
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It was a mercy that we were not inside when the roof collapsed
Nouns inflected like mercy
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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. See: Latin Nouns '
mercēs', French Nouns '
merci'.