merciment

Middle English

Noun

merciment (plural merciments)

1. mercement
   • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:

     Riȝt so is loue a ledere · and þe lawe shapeth / Vpon man for his mysdedes · þe merciment he taxeth.

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