mercied

English

Verb

mercied

1. simple past and past participle of mercy

Adjective

mercied (comparative more mercied, superlative most mercied)

1. Tempered by mercy; merciful.
   • 1853, The Present testimony, and original Christian witness revived:

     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"

   • 1892, Junius Lackland Hempstead, Parnassian Niches, page 162:

     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 ? ”

   • 1997, Gordon MacDonald, The Life God Blesses, →ISBN:

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

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