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mercify

mercify verb: to have mercy on; to pity.

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

Synonyms of mercify

Forms of mercify

third-person singular presentmercifies
present participlemercifying
past participlemercified
pastmercified

Origin of mercify

From mercy + -fy.

Questions about mercify

What does mercify mean?
Mercify means to have mercy on; to pity.
What part of speech is mercify?
Mercify is a verb.
What is the past tense of mercify?
The past tense of mercify is mercified.

Words near mercify in the dictionary

  1. merciful
  2. mercifull
  3. mercifully
  4. mercifulness
  5. mercifulnesses
  6. mercify
  7. mercifying
  8. merciless
  9. mercilessly
  10. mercilessness
  11. mercilessnesses

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