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Word: misericord
Meaning: noun:
1. Compassion, pity, or mercy.
2. Something to provide support to a standing person.
3. A place where rules are relaxed.
4. A dagger used to deliver the death stroke to a seriously wounded person.
Usage: “Roddy chose a tapestried stool as a misericord, uncomfortable enough to
avert the danger of relaxing.”
David Stuart Leslie;
Two Gentlemen Sharing; Secker & Warburg; 1963.
“‘By St. Loy!’ Joan cried suddenly. ‘We’ll pleasure ourselves now. Will
you take ale, lady, in the misericord?’
Sweeping with mockery, she led me, while the following shadows loomed
behind, down a low passage with a dim, fanned roof and gilded bosses.
‘A shapely building, this,’ I murmured.”
Rosemary Hawley Jarman;
We Speak No Treason; Little, Brown; 1971.
“He kept his enemy in sight as his fingers searched frantically for the
misericord fastened to his swordbelt.”
Tara O’Dell;
My Gallant Knight; Zebra; 1999.
