Definitions for Mercy

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Mercy mer·cy

Spelling: [mur-see]

IPA: /ˈmɜr si/

Mercy is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 42 anagrams from letters in Mercy (cemry).

Definitions for Mercy

noun

1. compassionate or kindly forbearance shown toward an offender, an enemy, or other person in one's power; compassion, pity, or benevolence:
2. the disposition to be compassionate or forbearing:
3. the discretionary power of a judge to pardon someone or to mitigate punishment, especially to send to prison rather than invoke the death penalty.
4. an act of kindness, compassion, or favor:
5. something that gives evidence of divine favor; blessing:
6. a female given name.

Idioms

1. at the mercy of, entirely in the power of; subject to: Also, at one's mercy.

Origin of Mercy

1125-75; Middle English merci Old French, earlier mercit Latin mercēd- (stem of mercēs) wages (Late Latin, Medieval Latin: heavenly reward), derivative of merx goods

Examples for Mercy

It was awful to Harriett that her father should be ill, lying there at their mercy.

Patterson decided that meant they just left the eaglets at the mercy of whatever danger arose.

Oh, miss, ain't it a mercy everybody ain't so like your own!

But the Marquis has no mercy on the performances of poor Miss Pardoe.

If you have forfeited man's respect and esteem, there is a God with whom there is mercy and forgiveness.

There, I thought I'd reveal the distressing truth about myself while I had you at my mercy.

But give the Kingdom credit for its sense of mercy: The lashes will be administered only 50 at a time.

Canned drinks like mercy contain up 5,000 percent of the daily value of certain vitamins.

If mercy is not preached by a national figure we take seriously, our battles over policy power will grow ever more merciless.

Policy is about wielding power, while mercy is about transcending power by renouncing it.