mercied

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adjective

Tempered by mercy; merciful.

Scrabble 12

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verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of mercy
adjectivemercied (comparative more mercied, superlative most mercied)

comparative more mercied · superlative most mercied

  1. Tempered by mercy; merciful.

    Smells like newly cut grass from a farmer's sickle seemed so clean and symbolic of the freshness of a “mercied” heart.

    1997, Gordon MacDonald, The Life God Blesses, →ISBN
    2 more examples

    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: clement, merciable, ruthful, clement, lenient, merciable, merciful, pitiful

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