Mercy

Definition: Mercy

Mercy

Noun

1. Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court".

2. A disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband".

3. The feeling that motivates compassion.

4. Something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive".

5. Alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

"Mercy" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a mercy".

Date "mercy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Mercy \Mer"cy\, noun; plural Mercies. [Old English merci, French merci, Latin merces, mercedis, hire, pay, reward, Late Latin, equiv. to misericordia pity, mercy. Latin merces is prob? akin to merere to deserve, acquire. See Merit, and compare to Amerce.]. (references)

Satire

Bible

Literature

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Synonyms: Mercy

Benevolence

Toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy; (pity).

Deity

Infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite truth, infinite mercy; omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence; unity, immutability, holiness, glory, majesty, sovereignty, infinity, eternity.

Deprecation

Interjection: cry you mercy! God forbid! forbid it Heaven! Heaven forefend, Heaven forbid! far be it from! hands off!; (prohibition); please don't.

Forgiveness

Adverb: cry you mercy.

Lenity

Noun: lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation; tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency; clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter; compassion.

Liability

Contingent, incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of.

Malevolence

Wreak one's malice on, do one's worst, break a butterfly on the wheel; dip one's hands in blood, imbrue one's hands in blood; have no mercy; a.

Pitilessness

Verb: have no mercy, shut the gates of mercy; give no quarter.

Pity

Noun: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency; (lenity); charity, ruth, long-suffering.

Interjection: for pity's sake! mercy! have mercy! cry you mercy! God help you! poor thing! poor dear! poor fellow! woe betide! " quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss! ".

Ask for mercy; Verb: supplicate; (request); cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.

Subjection

Verb: be subject; Adjective: be at the mercy of, lie at the mercy of; depend upon, lean upon, hang upon; fall a prey to, fall under; play second fiddle.

Adjective: subject, dependent, subordinate; feudal, feudatory; in subjection to, under control; in leading strings, in harness; subjected, enslaved; Verb: constrained; downtrodden; overborne, overwhelmed; under the lash, on the hip, led by the nose, henpecked; the puppet of, the sport of, the plaything of; under one's orders, under one's command, under one's thumb; a slave to; at the mercy of; in the power of, in the hands of, in the clutches of; at the feet of; at one's beck and call; (obedient); liable; parasitical; stipendiary.

Tribunal

Justice seat; judgment seat, mercy seat; woolsack; bar of justice; dock; forum, hustings, bureau, drumhead; jury box, witness box.

Wonder

Interjection: lo, lo and behold! O! heyday! halloo! what! indeed! really! surely! humph! hem! good lack, good heavens, gad so! welladay! dear me! only think! lackadaisy! my stars, my goodness! gracious goodness! goodness gracious! mercy on us! heavens and earth! God bless me! bless us, bless my heart! odzookens! O gemini! adzooks! hoity-toity! strong! Heaven save the mark, bless the mark! can such things be! zounds! 'sdeath! what on earth, what in the world! who would have thought it!; (inexpectation); you don't say so! You're kidding!. No kidding? what do you say to that! nous verrons! how now! where am I?

Crosswords: Mercy

Please show some mercy! (Batman & Robin; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Lord'ah mercy, I gotta tend to my fires (The Barbaric Beast of Boggy Creek, Part II; writing credit: Charles B. Pierce)

You can beg for mercy on your belly, lick the bottom of my shoes, or take a beating (Malcolm in the Middle; writing credit: Daniel Frenette)

You swore you'd show mercy! (The Pit and the Pendulum; writing credit: Dennis Paoli; Edgar Allan Poe)

May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't (Patton; writing credit: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North)

Woo ah, mercy mercy me (Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology); performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

Had an angel of mercy (Amazing; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Now babe, I'm not beggin' for mercy. (Love in the First Degree; performing artist: Alabama; writing credit: Jim Hurt and Tim DuBois)

Convoy! OMAHA? Well, they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer shure. Well, mercy (Convoy; performing artist: C.W. MCCALL)

Oh lord have mercy mercy mercy (Shy Guy; performing artist: Diana King)

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)

Goddess of Mercy Celebrates Her Birthday at Xianshan (1966)

Lovers at the Mercy Sword (1957)

Mercy Flight (1948)

Wings of Mercy (1947)

Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (performing artist: Marvin Gaye)

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Books

• A Severe Mercy (reference)

• Mercy (reference)

• Tender Mercy for a Mother's Soul (reference)

• The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Mercy - Living Mercy In Todays World (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Mercy (reference)

• WWE - No Mercy 2002 (reference)

• WWE No Mercy 1999 (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Mercy (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• WWE: No Mercy (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Sister Of Mercy Tending A Wounded Soldier / By Marc Antocolsky. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Beatrice knew that it was for her to speak : she nerved herself : "Mercy, Malatesta! -- for us both!". Credit: Library of Congress.

Press room set up in a courthouse basement at Manchester, N.H., during the trial of Hermann N. Sandfer, a physician, who was acquitted on March 9, 1950 of the "mercy killing" of a cancer patient. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mercy trucks accompany invaders; U.S. Coast Guardsmen load an ambulance aboard their transport at a North African port as they prepare to sail for Sicily. Credit: Library of Congress.

House of Mercy, Pittsfield, Mass. Credit: Library of Congress.

Convent, "Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy," Savannah, Ga. Credit: Library of Congress.

Our Lady of Mercy Church, 2500 Marion Ave., Bronx, New York. Rectory, bedroom. Credit: Library of Congress.

Sisters of Mercy Villa. Exterior of Mercy Villa I. Credit: Library of Congress.

John A. Brickley. Negative made at Sisters of Mercy Villa I. Credit: Library of Congress.

After the Battle of Gravelotte--Sisters of Mercy arriving on the battle field to succor the wounded. Credit: Library of Congress.

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I am conquered: my life, it is true, as forfeit, is at mercy, but not my wife's and children's. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He shook his head with a smile, and looked as if he had very little doubt and very little mercy.

May God have mercy on him

I cry thee mercy.

We therefore trusted ourselves to the mercy of the waves, and in about half an hour the boat was overset by a sudden flurry from the north

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Children

Dominican Republic

Homeless children called "palomas" (doves) are frequently at the mercy of adults who collect them and put them to work begging and selling fruit, flowers, and other goods on the street. (references)

Civil Liberties

Poland

Two new religious communities were registered during the year: The Independent Hebrew Religious Community in Poznan and the Church of the Mercy of Jesus. (references)

Economic History

South Africa

One such project currently under a consultancy study is the La Mercy Airport and Logistics Platform in Kwazulu-Natal. (references)

Human Rights

Uganda

Bright Gabula Africa, whose death sentence for treason (plotting an armed coup) was upheld by the Supreme Court in 1995, remained imprisoned pending the outcome of his appeal to the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy, a largely autonomous constitutional body that recommends whether presidential clemency powers should be exercised in a given case. (references)

Women

Kyrgyz Republic

Center Mercy embarked on a program to find employment in handicraft production for mothers of large families. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The grace or mercy of the Lord

Mercy

House of pity or mercy

Mercy of God

The house of grace or mercy

Of grace or mercy

My mercy

Mercy

Grace or mercy of God

The mercy of the Lord

Mercy

The mercy

The grace or mercy of the Lord

The grace or mercy of the Lord

Change of mercy

Not having obtained mercy

Having obtained mercy

Mercy

Mercy

The grace or mercy of the Lord

The grace or mercy of the Lord

Expressions using "mercy": act of mercy ♦ ad cry you mercy ♦ appeal for mercy ♦ ask for mercy ♦ at the mercy of ♦ beg for mercy ♦ cry mercy ♦ fling oneself on smb.'s mercy ♦ god have mercy upon you! ♦ Grand mercy ♦ have mercy ♦ have mercy on ♦ have mercy on smb. ♦ have mercy on us ♦ have no mercy ♦ leave to the mercy of ♦ lie at smb.'s mercy ♦ lie at the mercy of an enemy ♦ Mercy Corps International ♦ mercy killing ♦ mercy seat ♦ petition for mercy ♦ plea for mercy ♦ show mercy ♦ show mercy to ♦ show mercy to smb. ♦ showing mercy ♦ shut the gates of mercy ♦ sister of mercy ♦ sisters of Mercy ♦ To be at the mercy of ♦ To cry you mercy ♦ To lie at the mercy of ♦ with mercy ♦ works of mercy. Additional references.

Beginning with "mercy": mercy-full, mercy-killer, mercy-killing, Mercy-seat, mercy-truth.

Ending with "mercy": God-a-mercy, Lord-a-mercy.

Albanian

mëshirë (alms deed, clemency, compassion, lenity, pity, Ruth), ndjesë (forgiveness, pardon, remission), fat (chance, circumstance, cup, destiny, dole, doom, fate, fortune, hap, happiness, hit, kismet, lot, lottery, luck, portion, predetermine, share, spouse, weird), falje (absolution, amnesty, excuse, forgiveness, pardon, remission), bekim (beatification, benediction, blessedness, blessing). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نعمة (blessing, boon, favor, favour, grace), ‏رحمة (clemency, grace, pity, quarter, ruth), ‏رأفة (clemency, pity), ‏شفقة (compassion, kindness, pathos, pity, sympathy), ‏بركة (beatitude, benediction, blessing, boon, mere, pan, patch, pond, receptacle, tank). (various references)

Bulgarian 

снизхождение (condescension, forbearance, forgivingness, indulgence), милосърдие (clemency, humanity), милост (clemency, compassion, dispensation, forgivingness, grace, graciousness, pity, quarter), пощада (quarter). (various references)

Chinese 

慈悲 . (various references)

Czech

soucit (commiseration, compassion, pity, sympathy), shovívavost (benevolence, charity, clemency, connivance, forgiveness, indulgence, lenience, leniency). (various references)

Danish

barmhjertighed (charity, mercifulness). (various references)

Dutch

genade (absolution, charity, grace, mercifulness, pardon), barmhartigheid (charity, mercifulness). (various references)

Esperanto

mizerikordo, korfavoro (charity, mercifulness), kompatemo (charity, mercifulness). (various references)

Faeroese

miskunnsemi. (various references)

Farsi 

مرحمت (Grace), امان (Respite, Security), رحمت , رحم (Clemency, Compassion, Compunction, Matrix, Pity, Ruth, Uterus, Womb), شفقت (Compassion, Ruth), بخشش (Beneficence, Boon, Bounty, Generosity, Gift, Grace, Grant, Magneficence, Munificence, Pardon, Pity, Profusion, Release, Remission). (various references)

Finnish

laupeus (charity, mercifulness), armoa (have mercy on me), armo (clemency, grace, quarter). (various references)

French

miséricorde, pitié, indulgence, grâce, compassion (mercifulness). (various references)

German

Barmherzigkeit (charity, compassion, lovingness, mercifulness, remorsefulness), Mitleid (charity, commiseration, compassion, mercies, pitifulness, pity, ruth, sympathy), gnade (boon, clemency, Favor, favour, grace, graciousness, pardon). (various references)

Greek 

έλεοσ (pity, quarter), έλεος, εύσπλαχνοσ (merciful), ευσπλαχνία (charity, compassion, mercifulness, pitifulness, pity), οίκτοσ (pitifulness, pity). (various references)

Hebrew 

תח� ון (appeal, entreaty, plea, supplication), חמל�" (compassion, pity), ח� י� �" (amnesty, clemency, compassion, pardon), רתיון (clemency, forgiveness, indulgence), רחמים (compassion, pity), רחמ� ות (clemency, compassion, pity), צ�"ק�" (alms, bounty, charity, fairness, good deed, justice, justness, merit, piety), סלח� ות (forgiveness, leniency). (various references)

Hungarian

kegyelem (absolution, amnesty, clemency, grace, leniency, lenity, quarter), irgalom (clemency, graciousness, pity, quarter). (various references)

Indonesian

maaf (pardon, sorry), pengampunan (amnesty, clemency, condonation, remission), kerahiman (clemency), belas (pity, teens), ampun (forgiveness, pardon). (various references)

Italian

misericordia, piet� (commiseration, compassion, humaneness, pity, remorse, Ruth), impietosire (be moved, move to pity), grazia (charm, Favor, favour, grace, gracefulness, neatness, pardon, prettiness, reprieve), clemenza (clemency, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, mildness), carit� (alms, charity, dole, Favor, favour, kindness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

慈悲 (benevolence, charity, compassion). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なさけようしゃ, れ�"び�" (compassion, pity), ようしゃ (adoption or rejection, choice, forgiveness, pardon, separating the needed from the unneeded), じし�" (attendant, benevolence, by oneself, core, courtier, earthquake, magnetic needle, personally, self-confidence), じひ (benevolence, charity, compassion, lady in waiting, one's own expense), じ�"けい (charity, formation, graciousness, term of address for a friend). (various references)

Korean 

자비. (various references)

Manx

myghin (quarter, quarter mercy). (various references)

Pig Latin

ercymay.(various references)

Portuguese

misericórdia (charity, mercifulness), piedade (bowels, compassion, forgiveness, godliness, let-off, mercifulness, piety, pity, religiousness, ruth), pena (crowquill, egret, feather, grief, nib, pain, pen, penalty, penholder, pity, plume, punishment, rue, ruth, sanction, sentence, stretch, suffering, sympathy, trouble), compaixão (compassion, empathy, fellow feeling, pity, rue, ruth, sympathy), clemência (clemency, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness). (various references)

Romanian

milostenie (alms), milã (alms, charity, commiseration, compassion, goodwill, grief, it is pitiful, lenity, love, mile, pity, remorse, Ruth, sparing), indulgenţã (indulgence, lenience, leniency, lenity, pardon), iertare (absolution, acquittal, apology, condonation, excuse, forgiveness, forgiving, grace, pardon, remise, remission, remitment, sparing), dumnezeule (bless me, bless my heart, bless my soul, dear me, good gracious, good heavens, good lord, my lord, oh lord), compasiune (compassion, pity, Ruth), compãtimire (commiseration, compassion, fellow feeling, pity, remorse, sympathy), clemenţã (clemency, graciousness), caritate (almsgiving, charity, philanthropy), îngãduinţã (approval, lenience, leniency, lenity, non-interference, patience, tolerance), îndurare (clemency, compassion, forbearance, grace, lenity, mercifulness, pity). (various references)

Russian 

милосердие (charity, clemency, graciousness, lenity, mercifulness). (various references)

Scottish

meachainn (deduction, discretionary power), tròcair (compassionate act), iochdmhorachd, iochd (clemency, humanity, kindness), coimirc. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

milost (favor, favour, grace, graciousness, loveliness, niceness), sažaljenje (bowels, compassion, pity, remorse, ruth). (various references)

Spanish

misericordia (charity, clemency, compassion, forgiveness, mercifulness). (various references)

Swedish

barmhärtighet (charity, mercifulness). (various references)

Turkish

merhametlilik (graciousness, mercifulness), merhamet (Agape, benignity, charitableness, charity, clemency, commiseration, compassion, grace, loving kindness, misericordia, pity, Ruth), rahmet (god's compassion, rain), insaf (fairness, have a heart, reason), aman (oh, quarter), af (absolution, act of grace, amnesty, dismissal, excusing, forgiveness, forgiving, oblivion, pardon, remission). (various references)

Ukrainian

милосердя (alms, beneficence, charity, clemency, lenity, mercifulness, mildness), прощення (absolution, amnesty, condonation, forgiveness, pardon). (various references)

Vietnamese 

lòng thương (compassion, compassionateness), lòng từ bi lòng khoan dung ơn, lòng nhân từ (benevolence, mercifulness), hạnh phúc (bliss, blissful, felicitous, felicity, luckiness, weal, wealth, welfare, well-being), ơn huệ sự may mắn, điều sung sướng dưới quyền của. (various references)

Welsh

trugaredd (compassion). (various references)

clementia, elemosyna, elemosynae, elemosynam, elemosynas, elemosynis, mercedem, misericordia, misericordiae, misericordiam, misericordiarum, misericordias, misericordiis. (various references)

ar, mildheortnes, milts. (various references)

merci. (various references)

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Derivations

Words ending with "mercy": gramercy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Mercy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ecry, ercy, Hercy, Maerdy, marby, markly, marmy, marvy, Mbershi, mearc, meci, mecy, meerk, meery, megry, memc, merc, Merca, Merce, mercey, merch, mercie, mercied, merck, Merco, mercu, merecy, merey, mergy, Merk, mermy, Mersky, mersy, Mervy, Merwyn, Mery, micy, mirby, Morby, morc, murcy, mursy, Myrfyn. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cyme.

-2 letters: cry, rec, rem, rye.

-3 letters: em, er, me, my, re, ye.

+1 letter: creamy.

+2 letters: comfrey, mercery, mercury, mockery.

+3 letters: cemetery, ceremony, chemurgy, claymore, cometary, comfreys, corymbed, creamery, creamily, cymbaler, gramercy, numeracy, sycamore, sycomore.

+4 letters: archenemy, champerty, chemistry, cherimoya, claymores, clergyman, clergymen, comradely, comradery, copolymer, corymbose, costumery, crematory, cymbalers, democracy, embracery, embryonic, emergency, eurythmic, hyperemic, machinery, macrocyte, mercenary, microcyte, micropyle, pachyderm, polymeric, supremacy, sycamores, sycomores, symmetric.

+5 letters: acidimetry, acromegaly, acrylamide, aerenchyma, asymmetric, cavalrymen, cherimoyas, commandery, commentary, copolymers, coryneform, coulometry, countrymen, cyclometer, cytochrome, eurhythmic, eurythmics, hermatypic, hypermanic, hypodermic, immoderacy, innumeracy, kerygmatic, lachrymose, lysimetric, macrocytes, macrophyte, mediocrity, mercifully, metrically, microcytes, micropyles, motorcycle, mycoflorae, mythicizer, necromancy, pachyderms, parenchyma, permanency, plyometric, polychrome, premycotic, pycnometer, pyrometric, recumbency, sociometry, syncretism, viscometry, vitrectomy.