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Definition of Misericorde
1. n. Compassion; pity; mercy.
Definition of Misericorde
1. Noun. (''Middle English'') an act of clemency; pity, mercy. ¹
2. Noun. a misericord. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Misericorde
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Misericorde
Literary usage of Misericorde
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury (1903)
"And therfore 805 speke I first of misericorde. / Thanne is misericorde, as seith
the philoso- phre, a vertu, by which the corage of man is stired by the ..."
2. A Glossary of Liturgical and Ecclesiastical Terms by Frederick George Lee (1877)
"In England, one or two examples may be indicated. There is a fox preaching to
geese on a misericorde in Beverley Minster ..."
3. The Hengwrt Ms of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1879)
"... is misericorde ft pite largely taken / I ^^ And men'myght axe why that misericorde
... man to the misericorde of ihesu criste that yaf hym self for oure ..."
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