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mercied

mercied is the simple past and past participle of mercy.

Meaning of mercy

Verb

mercy (third-person singular simple present mercies, present participle mercying, simple past and past participle mercied)

  1. To feel mercy
    • I despised her; but I mercied her, too, and gave her sweet berries to eat, and led her to my lodge, and said to my best wife, ' Get up from my best skin, for the white squaw is a guest, and is weary.'1866, Sarah Hammond Palfrey, Herman: Or, Young Knighthood, page 189
  2. To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy
    • In the middle of the room is a young Infanta intended for Marguerite Theresa, born in 1651, daughter of Philip the fourth, whose portrait Velasquez took in 1658, to send to Leopold, who had just been elected Emperor of Germanyd and who mercied her in 1666.1833, Etienne Achille Réveil, Museum of Painting and Sculpture

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Adjective

mercied (comparative more mercied, superlative most mercied)

  1. Tempered by mercy; merciful.
    • Christ watereth with His blessing all things. If every thing that a saint hath be blessed, and every thing (to speak so) mercied, and christianed, even " his basket and his dough"1853, The Present testimony, and original Christian witness revived
    • Hast thou no mercied feeling In thy proud and cruel soul, As thus thou seest one kneeling, With no effort to control The tears that are unseemly, Where pride should stem the tide, And scorn give place to pity, for Gustave's stricken bride ? ”1892, Junius Lackland Hempstead, Parnassian Niches, page 162

Synonyms of mercied

Forms of mercied

comparativemore mercied
superlativemost mercied

Questions about mercied

What does mercied mean?
Mercied means tempered by mercy; merciful.
What is mercied the simple past and past participle of?
Mercied is the simple past and past participle of mercy.
What part of speech is mercied?
Mercied is an adjective.

Words near mercied in the dictionary

  1. Mercia
  2. merciable
  3. Mercian
  4. Mercians
  5. mercie
  6. mercied
  7. Mercier
  8. Merciers
  9. mercies
  10. mercification
  11. mercified

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