gramercy
nounEtymology From Middle English gramerci, from Old French grant merci (“great thanks”). Still in use in south of France's Provençal language as 'gramerci'.
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Archaic Thanks.
gramercy
intjUS /ɡɹəˈmɝ.si/ · UK /ɡɹəˈmɜː.si/
Etymology From Middle English gramerci, from Old French grant merci (“great thanks”). Still in use in south of France's Provençal language as 'gramerci'.
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Archaic Used as an expression of gratitude: thanks; many thanks.
- Gramércy, liegé King, / This is to me a comforting: / I tell you sickerly / For to have land or lede / Or other riches, so God me speed, / It is too much for me.[late 14th – early 15th century, “Transition English: From the Conquest to Chaucer.—a.d. 1666 to a.d. 1352 [Sir Cleges.]”, in Henry Morley, editor, Shorter English Poems (Cassell’s Library of English Literature), London; Paris: Cassell & Company, […], published c. 1870s, →OCLC, page 28, column 2, lines 409–412:
- "Gramercy! good fellow," cried Prince John, "thou pleasest me—Here, Isaac, lend me a handful of byzants."1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter VIII, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC, page 155:
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Archaic Used as an exclamation expressing surprise or sudden strong feelings.