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mercifies

mercifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mercify.

Meaning of mercify

Verb

mercify (third-person singular simple present mercifies, present participle mercifying, simple past and past participle mercified)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To have mercy on; to pity.
    • Whilest she did weepe, of no man mercifide […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about mercifies

What is mercifies the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Mercifies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of mercify.

Words near mercifies in the dictionary

  1. Mercier
  2. Merciers
  3. mercies
  4. mercification
  5. mercified
  6. mercifies
  7. mercifixion
  8. merciful
  9. mercifull
  10. mercifully
  11. mercifulness

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