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Recreant

Crying for mercy as a combatant in the trial by battle yielding cowardly mean spirited craven

Merciless

Destitute of mercy cruel unsparing said of animate beings and also figuratively of things as a merciless tyrant merciless waves

Loving kindness

Tender regard mercy favor

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Grand mercy

See Gramercy

Pardon

Pardon, forgiveness of a crime; remission of punis-hment. The pardoning of criminals is the peculiar preroga-tive of the sovereign. See 4 Steph. Com., 7th Edn. The sovereign may pardon all offences merely against the Crown and...

Magna Carta

Magna Carta, [Latin 'great charter'] The English charter that King John granted to the barons in 1215 and Henry III and Edward I later confirmed. It is generally regarded as one of the great common-law documents...

amercement

amercement [Anglo-French amerciment, from amercier to fine, from Old French a merci at one's mercy] : a fine or damages imposed at the discretion of the court

Compassionate

Having a temper or disposition to pity sympathetic merciful

Pitiful

Full of pity tender hearted compassionate kind merciful sympathetic

Clement

Mild in temper and disposition merciful compassionate

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