Definitions
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- proper noun A female
given name , one of the less commonPuritan virtue names.
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Examples
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Lord, have mercy, "instead of" Lord, have Mercy, "and to say" Alleluia "twice instead of three times, to the peril of their souls!
A Short History of Russia Mary Platt Parmele 1877
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Branded as in Mercy is going to be branded by some hot loving!
The title of Mercy's Book Nalini Singh 2008
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For the gold medal he executed a group which he called Mercy interceding for the Vanquished.
Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money James Parton 1856
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On Thursday, the team arrived at a cache of supplies that McClure had deposited on the shore of what he dubbed Mercy Bay.
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"Mercy" is grace of a more tender kind, exercised towards the miserable, the experience of which in one's own case especially fits for the Gospel MINISTRY.
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While Mercy is out of the town the werewolves are negociating peace with Marsilia.
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Mercy is refusing to allow what happened to shape her life.
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A Mercy is eked out with a few set pieces, but even they rush us through; the book never seems to settle into narrative “real time.”
Mercy! 2009
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By day, Mercy is a car mechanic in the sprawling Tri-Cities of Eastern Washington.
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It was good to see the werewolves deal fromtheir own position of power, and that unlike some other series, Mercy is not the only personwho can solve a problem.
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