misericord
📖 Definitions
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 Examples
“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.