mercify

verb

mercify

verb

Etymology From mercy + -fy.

1

Obsolete, Rare To have mercy on; to pity.

Whilest she did weepe, of no man mercifide […]1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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