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mercy
Found in thesaurus: leniency, lenience, humaneness, compassionateness, compassion, blessing, boon, succour, succor, ministration, relief
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mercy
n.
compassion, pity; charity; forgiveness; act of kindness; lenient sentence
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Mercy
Mercy (Middle English, from Anglo-French merci, from Medieval Latin merced-, merces, from Latin, "price paid, wages", from merc-, merxi "merchandise") is a broad term that refers to benevolence, forgiveness and kindness in a variety of ethical, religious, social and legal contexts.
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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"
(synonym) clemency, mercifulness
(hypernym) lenience, leniency
(hyponym) commutation, re-sentencing
2. a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"
(synonym) mercifulness
(hypernym) humaneness
(hyponym) compassion, pity
3. the feeling that motivates compassion
(synonym) mercifulness
(hypernym) compassion, compassionateness
(hyponym) forgiveness
4. something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive"
(hypernym) blessing, boon
5. alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"
(hypernym) relief, succor, succour, ministration
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mercy
n.
milost; soucit; na milost komu/čemu; napospas čemu
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mercy
Rzecz.
litość; łaska
