What is the meaning of Misericordia?

  • (n.) An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
  • (n.) A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or "mercy" stroke to a fallen adversary.
  • (n.) An amercement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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