gramercyint.

/ɡrəˈməːsi/

Forms: Middle English, 1500s grand, graunt(e mercy, (Middle English grant merci, grant mercy, gromercy, Middle English gramarcy), -erci, Middle English gray mercy, gremercy, gromersy, ( -essye, -esty), Middle English–1500s gramercye, (1500s garmercye, grammercie), 1500s–1600s gramercie, (1600s g'rammercy, 1600s–1700s gra'mercy, gran mercé), Middle English– gramercy. plural 1500s gram(m)ercies, -sies, 1600s gramercyes, 1700s gray mercies.

Etymology: < Old French grant merci; grant great (see grand adj.) + merci : see mercy v.The primary sense of merci was ‘reward, favour gained by merit’; hence grant merci originally meant ‘may God reward you greatly’: compare God-a-mercy int. and n. Both grant merci and merci without the adjective came to be used interjectionally = ‘thanks’, in which use the shorter form survives in modern French.

Obsolete exc. archaic.

a. = Thanks; thank you. Formerly also in plural. Const. for, †of.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > gratitude > thanks [interjection]

gramercyc1330

mercyc1390

thanks1598

kew1939

cheers1976

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 145 Philip..Said often grant mercy.

1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 317 She saith: Graunt mercy, leve sir.

a1400 Coer de L. 1371 Quod the kyng: ‘Frendes, gromercy!’

a1400 Octouian 1291 Graunt marcy, my lord the kyng.

c1420 Sir Amadace (Camd.) lii The king..bede, ‘Gromersy, gentulle knyȝte!’

a1440 Sir Degrev. 785 ‘Maydame’, sche seid, ‘gramercy Of thi gret cortesy’.

c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) l. 741 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 231 Graunte mercy, ihesu, crop & roote Of al frenschip.

c1547 S. Gardiner Let. 21 May in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 734/1 Winchester, Winchester, grand mercy for your wine.

a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C Gramarcies Peggie, looke for me eare long.

1594 True Trag. Richard III 67 Richmond, gramercies for thy kinde good newes.

1598 E. Ford Parismus xxvi. sig. Dd4^v Gramercies (quoth hee) for thy good will.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 66 Gramercies good Foole: How does your Mistris?

1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 150 Grammercy Socrates, That is good counsel indeed.

1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. vii*. 129 Gramercy for thy caution.

1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!! in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 124 Gramercy for thy benison!

†b. Indirectly, with dative of agent or instrument (later with to): = Thanks to; by the instrumentality of. So, proverbially, gramercy horse! (apparently an allusion to the story quoted s.v. God-a-mercy int. and n.). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1426 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 7 Euere gremercy God and ye.

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 757 Gromesty God and that good Man.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. vii 248 To the whiche thing god gramercy the kynge of fraunce..hathe wel aduysed.

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxvi. liv. 302 Though ye shield brake not (gramercy charme).

a1652 A. Wilson Inconstant Lady (1980) iv. 51 Hee's gon. Gramercy, horse!

1713 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray (1720) iii. i. 43 They have confin'd me long, Gra'mercy to their Goodness, Pris'ner here.

a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §140 Gran Mercé to his Authors the Libellers of that Time.

2. ? Used as an exclamation of surprise or sudden feeling; = ‘mercy on us!’Johnson, 1755, who regards the word as shortened from grant me mercy, gives this as the only application of the word; but both his examples belong to sense 1. The quots. from Heywood and Ross seem to show that the word was sometimes actually used as Johnson says; but the instances in 19th cent. may be merely based on his explanation.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection]

whatOE

well, wellOE

avoyc1300

ouc1300

ay1340

lorda1393

ahaa1400

hillaa1400

whannowc1450

wow1513

why?1520

heydaya1529

ah1538

ah me!a1547

fore me!a1547

o me!a1547

what the (also a) goodyear1570

precious coals1576

Lord have mercy (on us)1581

good heavens1588

whau1589

coads1590

ay me!1591

my stars!a1593

Gods me1595

law1598

Godso1600

to go out1600

coads-nigs1608

for mercy!a1616

good stars!1615

mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616

gramercy1617

goodness1623

what next?1662

mon Dieu1665

heugh1668

criminy1681

Lawd1696

the dickens1697

(God, etc.) bless my heart1704

alackaday1705

(for) mercy's sake!1707

my1707

deuce1710

gracious1712

goodly and gracious1713

my word1722

my stars and garters!1758

lawka1774

losha1779

Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784

great guns!1795

mein Gott1795

Dear me!1805

fancy1813

well, I'm sure!1815

massy1817

Dear, dear!1818

to get off1818

laws1824

Mamma mia1824

by crikey1826

wisha1826

alleleu1829

crackey1830

Madonna mia1830

indeed1834

to go on1835

snakes1839

Jerusalem1840

sapristi1840

oh my days1841

tear and ages1841

what (why, etc.) in time?1844

sakes alive!1846

gee willikers1847

to get away1847

well, to be sure!1847

gee1851

Great Scott1852

holy mackerel!1855

doggone1857

lawsy1868

my wig(s)!1871

gee whiz1872

crimes1874

yoicks1881

Christmas1882

hully gee1895

'ullo1895

my hat!1899

good (also great) grief!1900

strike me pink!1902

oo-er1909

what do you know?1909

cripes1910

coo1911

zowiec1913

can you tie that?1918

hot diggety1924

yeow1924

ziggety1924

stone (or stiffen) the crows1930

hullo1931

tiens1932

whammo1932

po po po1936

how about that?1939

hallo1942

brother1945

tie that!1948

surprise1953

wowee1963

yikes1971

never1974

to sod off1976

whee1978

mercy1986

yipes1989

1617 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse (new ed.) sig. A3^v Gramercies brother, wrought her too't already.

a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iv. i. 83 Gramercyes. I in troth mch suffered ffor thee knwinge howe rashly thou exposd thy selff to such a turbulent Sea.

1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 24 Gray-mercies she replies, but I maun gang.

1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 16 Gramercy! they for joy did grin.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. v. 88 Gramercy! it seems that there is nothing which better stirs a man's appetite than a sick bed.

†3. quasi-n. The salutation ‘thanks’ or ‘thank you’. Hence in phrases, as worth gramercy, worth giving thanks for, of some value or importance. no gramercy, no occasion for deserving thanks; no special merit; similarly, what gramercy?, for gramercy: for a ‘thank-you’; for nothing or next to nothing; gratis. (Cf. God-a-mercy n.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > an instance or expression of

a thankc1400

gramercyc1485

God-a-mercy1549

gratitude1660

thank you1792

mahalo1891

Q1925

asante sana1996

c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 410 Is this theire gramercy? is this theire reward?

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xviij^v The kyng..sendeth to you greate gramercies.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark viii. 57 Suche a one as loketh for summe thankes or gramercies.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Pet. ii. f. vii But what garmercye were it, yf you suffre whan you are buffetted for naughtye doynges?

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Niii^v Payinge very lytle for them, yea mooste commonlye gettynge them for gramercye.

1572 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers 274 The Ladies all saluted him & he gaue them the gramercy.

1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 279 It was no gramercie to him, that his wife's honesty was not put in hazard.

1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 966 He made Corn to be distributed to the People at a very mean price to some, and for gramercy to the poor.

1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 221 Where desire to do good, & good for gramercie be the true ends of most honour.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 540/2 Rendering to him and his armie a thousand gramersies.

a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xvii. 21 Nothing is gotten for gramercy.

1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xix. 153 Workes..of compulsion, are not worth Gramercy.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 21 So have wee our severall Psalmes for severall occasions, without gramercy to your Liturgy.

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 37 I cannot relate the history of my life..with a..bare gramercy to my starres.

1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 What grammercy to be sober, just or continent?

1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. ii. sig. L3^v No Ladies live such Lives. Mer. Some few, upon necessity, perhaps. But that's not worth g'rammercy.

a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 174 The Duke returned him no Gra-mercy, being resolute to out-face Envy.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

单词	gramercy
释义	gramercyint. /ɡrəˈməːsi/ Forms: Middle English, 1500s grand, graunt(e mercy, (Middle English grant merci, grant mercy, gromercy, Middle English gramarcy), -erci, Middle English gray mercy, gremercy, gromersy, ( -essye, -esty), Middle English–1500s gramercye, (1500s garmercye, grammercie), 1500s–1600s gramercie, (1600s g'rammercy, 1600s–1700s gra'mercy, gran mercé), Middle English– gramercy. plural 1500s gram(m)ercies, -sies, 1600s gramercyes, 1700s gray mercies. Etymology: < Old French grant merci; grant great (see grand adj.) + merci : see mercy v.The primary sense of merci was ‘reward, favour gained by merit’; hence grant merci originally meant ‘may God reward you greatly’: compare God-a-mercy int. and n. Both grant merci and merci without the adjective came to be used interjectionally = ‘thanks’, in which use the shorter form survives in modern French. Obsolete exc. archaic. 1. a. = Thanks; thank you. Formerly also in plural. Const. for, †of. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > thanks [interjection] gramercyc1330 mercyc1390 thanks1598 kew1939 cheers1976 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 145 Philip..Said often grant mercy. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 317 She saith: Graunt mercy, leve sir. a1400 Coer de L. 1371 Quod the kyng: ‘Frendes, gromercy!’ a1400 Octouian 1291 Graunt marcy, my lord the kyng. c1420 Sir Amadace (Camd.) lii The king..bede, ‘Gromersy, gentulle knyȝte!’ a1440 Sir Degrev. 785 ‘Maydame’, sche seid, ‘gramercy Of thi gret cortesy’. c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) l. 741 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 231 Graunte mercy, ihesu, crop & roote Of al frenschip. c1547 S. Gardiner Let. 21 May in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 734/1 Winchester, Winchester, grand mercy for your wine. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C Gramarcies Peggie, looke for me eare long. 1594 True Trag. Richard III 67 Richmond, gramercies for thy kinde good newes. 1598 E. Ford Parismus xxvi. sig. Dd4^v Gramercies (quoth hee) for thy good will. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 66 Gramercies good Foole: How does your Mistris? View more context for this quotation 1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 150 Grammercy Socrates, That is good counsel indeed. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. vii. 129 Gramercy for thy caution. 1842 R. H. Barham Nell Cook!!* in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 124 Gramercy for thy benison! †b. Indirectly, with dative of agent or instrument (later with to): = Thanks to; by the instrumentality of. So, proverbially, gramercy horse! (apparently an allusion to the story quoted s.v. God-a-mercy int. and n.). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1426 W. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 7 Euere gremercy God and ye. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lii. l. 757 Gromesty God and that good Man. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. vii 248 To the whiche thing god gramercy the kynge of fraunce..hathe wel aduysed. 1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xxxvi. liv. 302 Though ye shield brake not (gramercy charme). a1652 A. Wilson Inconstant Lady (1980) iv. 51 Hee's gon. Gramercy, horse! 1713 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray (1720) iii. i. 43 They have confin'd me long, Gra'mercy to their Goodness, Pris'ner here. a1734 R. North Examen (1740) i. ii. §140 Gran Mercé to his Authors the Libellers of that Time. 2. ? Used as an exclamation of surprise or sudden feeling; = ‘mercy on us!’Johnson, 1755, who regards the word as shortened from grant me mercy, gives this as the only application of the word; but both his examples belong to sense 1. The quots. from Heywood and Ross seem to show that the word was sometimes actually used as Johnson says; but the instances in 19th cent. may be merely based on his explanation. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > exclamation of surprise [interjection] whatOE well, wellOE avoyc1300 ouc1300 ay1340 lorda1393 ahaa1400 hillaa1400 whannowc1450 wow1513 why?1520 heydaya1529 ah1538 ah me!a1547 fore me!a1547 o me!a1547 what the (also a) goodyear1570 precious coals1576 Lord have mercy (on us)1581 good heavens1588 whau1589 coads1590 ay me!1591 my stars!a1593 Gods me1595 law1598 Godso1600 to go out1600 coads-nigs1608 for mercy!a1616 good stars!1615 mercy on us (also me, etc.)!a1616 gramercy1617 goodness1623 what next?1662 mon Dieu1665 heugh1668 criminy1681 Lawd1696 the dickens1697 (God, etc.) bless my heart1704 alackaday1705 (for) mercy's sake!1707 my1707 deuce1710 gracious1712 goodly and gracious1713 my word1722 my stars and garters!1758 lawka1774 losha1779 Lord bless me (also you, us, etc.)1784 great guns!1795 mein Gott1795 Dear me!1805 fancy1813 well, I'm sure!1815 massy1817 Dear, dear!1818 to get off1818 laws1824 Mamma mia1824 by crikey1826 wisha1826 alleleu1829 crackey1830 Madonna mia1830 indeed1834 to go on1835 snakes1839 Jerusalem1840 sapristi1840 oh my days1841 tear and ages1841 what (why, etc.) in time?1844 sakes alive!1846 gee willikers1847 to get away1847 well, to be sure!1847 gee1851 Great Scott1852 holy mackerel!1855 doggone1857 lawsy1868 my wig(s)!1871 gee whiz1872 crimes1874 yoicks1881 Christmas1882 hully gee1895 'ullo1895 my hat!1899 good (also great) grief!1900 strike me pink!1902 oo-er1909 what do you know?1909 cripes1910 coo1911 zowiec1913 can you tie that?1918 hot diggety1924 yeow1924 ziggety1924 stone (or stiffen) the crows1930 hullo1931 tiens1932 whammo1932 po po po1936 how about that?1939 hallo1942 brother1945 tie that!1948 surprise1953 wowee1963 yikes1971 never1974 to sod off1976 whee1978 mercy1986 yipes1989 1617 T. Heywood Woman Kilde with Kindnesse (new ed.) sig. A3^v Gramercies brother, wrought her too't already. a1641 T. Heywood Captives (1953) iv. i. 83 Gramercyes. I in troth mch suffered ffor thee knwinge howe rashly thou exposd thy selff to such a turbulent Sea. 1768 A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess 24 Gray-mercies she replies, but I maun gang. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 16 Gramercy! they for joy did grin. 1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. v. 88 Gramercy! it seems that there is nothing which better stirs a man's appetite than a sick bed. †3. quasi-n. The salutation ‘thanks’ or ‘thank you’. Hence in phrases, as worth gramercy, worth giving thanks for, of some value or importance. no gramercy, no occasion for deserving thanks; no special merit; similarly, what gramercy?, for gramercy: for a ‘thank-you’; for nothing or next to nothing; gratis. (Cf. God-a-mercy n.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > an instance or expression of a thankc1400 gramercyc1485 God-a-mercy1549 gratitude1660 thank you1792 mahalo1891 Q1925 asante sana1996 c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 410 Is this theire gramercy? is this theire reward? 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. xviij^v The kyng..sendeth to you greate gramercies. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark viii. 57 Suche a one as loketh for summe thankes or gramercies. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. 1 Pet. ii. f. vii But what garmercye were it, yf you suffre whan you are buffetted for naughtye doynges? 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Niii^v Payinge very lytle for them, yea mooste commonlye gettynge them for gramercye. 1572 G. Gascoigne Hundred Flowers 274 The Ladies all saluted him & he gaue them the gramercy. 1578 T. Tymme tr. J. Calvin Comm. Genesis 279 It was no gramercie to him, that his wife's honesty was not put in hazard. 1579–80 T. North tr. Plutarch Lives (1676) 966 He made Corn to be distributed to the People at a very mean price to some, and for gramercy to the poor. 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxix. 221 Where desire to do good, & good for gramercie be the true ends of most honour. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 540/2 Rendering to him and his armie a thousand gramersies. a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus Manuall (1636) xvii. 21 Nothing is gotten for gramercy. 1624 R. Montagu Gagg for New Gospell? xix. 153 Workes..of compulsion, are not worth Gramercy. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 21 So have wee our severall Psalmes for severall occasions, without gramercy to your Liturgy. 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) 37 I cannot relate the history of my life..with a..bare gramercy to my starres. 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 17 What grammercy to be sober, just or continent? 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew iv. ii. sig. L3^v No Ladies live such Lives. Mer. Some few, upon necessity, perhaps. But that's not worth g'rammercy. a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) i. 174 The Duke returned him no Gra-mercy, being resolute to out-face Envy. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < int.c1330
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