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   Clemency and compassion shown to a person who is in a position of powerlessness or subjection, or to a person with no right or claim to receive kindness; kind and compassionate treatment in a case where severity is merited or expected, esp. in giving legal judgment or passing sentence.

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   kindness that makes you forgive someone, usually someone that you have authority over: She appealed to the judge to have mercy on her husband. The prisoners pleaded for mercy. The gunmen showed no mercy, killing innocent men and women. be at the mercy of someone/something.

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   If you refer to an event or a situation as a mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant from happening. [...]

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   If you refer to an event or situation as a mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant happening. It really was a mercy that he'd died so rapidly at the end.

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   What does Mercy mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! MERCY definition: 1. kindness that makes you forgive someone, usually someone that you have authority over: 2. to be…. Learn more.

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   What does it mean if a situation is a mercy?

   • If you refer to an event or situation as a mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant happening. It really was a mercy that he'd died so rapidly at the end. The two cars finished up in a run-off area, clear of the circuit, and that was a mercy.

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   What does it mean if someone in authority shows mercy?

   • If someone in authority shows mercy, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish. Neither side took prisoners or showed any mercy. They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter. May God have mercy on your soul.

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   What is a work of Mercy?

   • Usually in full as work (also †deed, †duty) of mercy. A compassionate or charitable act; spec. each of the seven spiritual and seven corporal works of mercy enumerated in medieval theology. Usually in plural. From the 17th cent. onwards contrasted with works of necessity (see necessity n. I.1b).

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   What does Mercies mean?

   • An act of (esp. divine) mercy; an event or circumstance calling for special thankfulness. Now also in weakened sense: a blessing, a relief; a positive aspect to a generally bad situation (frequently in small mercies). one's mercies noun good things received from God.

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   What does 'have mercy' mean in a writ?

   • The judgment was that the plaintiffs take nothing by their writ, but be in the mercy for their false plaint. 1. ‘Have mercy!’, ‘May God have mercy!’ (sometimes with qualification, as God's mercy!, etc., and in weakened use expressing surprise, fear, etc.).

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