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n. an act of clemency; pity, mercy.

n. a misericord.

n. Compassion; pity; mercy.

n. Same as Misericordia, 2.

Merciful disposition; forgiving pity or kindness.

A dagger used by a knight to put a wounded man out of his misery (to give the coup de grâce).

Same as miserere.

Relaxation of monastic rule; indulgence.

An apartment in a monastery in which certain relaxations of the rule were permitted; especially, one in which those monks ate to whom special allowances were made in food and drink.

"Compassion, condolence, commiseration, or pity, is no other thing than an affection which makes us share in the suffering and sorrow of him whom we love, drawing the misery which he endures into our heart; whence it is called misericorde, or, as it were, misere de cœur: as complacency draws into the lover's heart the pleasures and contentments of the thing beloved."

misericordia   

compassion    pity    mercy