OXFORD 9000
📚 name • entry_id 24974

Mercy

Meanings (ES + gloss)
Mercedes
A female given name from English.
Mr Pecksniff was a moral man — a grave man, a man of noble sentiments and speech — and he had had her christened Mercy. Mercy! oh, what a charming name for such a pure–souled Being…
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📚 noun • entry_id 24211

mercy

/ˈmɜːsi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
misericordia • piedad
Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.
She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.
misericordia • piedad
Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.
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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