mercy

Relenting; forbearance to cause or allow harm to another.uncountable

• She took mercy on him and quit embarrassing him.

Forgiveness or compassion, especially toward those less fortunate.uncountable

• Have mercy on the poor and assist them if you can.

A tendency toward forgiveness, pity, or compassion.uncountable

• Mercy is one of his many virtues.

Instances of forbearance or forgiveness.countable

• 1982, Bible (NKJV), Psalm 40:11a Do not withhold Your tender mercies from me, O Lord

A blessing; something to be thankful for.countable

• It was a mercy that we were not inside when the roof collapsed

A children's game in which two players stand opposite with hands grasped and twist each other's arms until one gives in.uncountable

To feel mercy

• I despised her; but I mercied her, too, and gave her sweet berries to eat, and led her to my lodge, and said to my best wife, ' Get up from my best skin, for the white squaw is a guest, and is weary.'
• At another time, forgetting "his verse," he attempted part of the Lord's Sermon on the Mount, by repeating, "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be mercied!"

To show mercy; to pardon or treat leniently because of mercy

• Remember that kid that kept yelling that his father was mercied?” “Mercied?” - “The kid that kept saying his father was killed?
• 'Hah! Good Samaritan indeed! Then why hasn't she mercied me all these years I've been begging for her pepper-soup on credit?

Expressing surprise or alarm.

• Mercy! Look at the state of you!