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单词 to take to mercy
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to take to (also into) mercy
c. to take to (also into) mercy: to extend pardon to (a person who yields willingly); to give quarter to, receive the submission of. Obsolete.In early use this referred to the commutation of the death sentence for a fine: cf. sense A. 7.
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the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > have mercy upon
sparec825
milceeOE
arec1000
i-milcec1000
to have (also take) mercy on (also upon, of)a1225
to show (also do) mercy (to)a1225
methec1225
savea1382
miltha1400
tender1442
to take to (also into) mercy1523
mercify1596
bemercy1660
to give (or cut) (a person) some slack1968
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxvii. 730 The kynge was counsayled to take them to mercy, so that..they shulde gyue to the kyng lx. thousande frankes.
1550 J. Coke Deb. Heraldes Eng. & Fraunce sig. Dvijv Kyng Edwarde ye .iij.&..his sone prynce Edwarde..favoryng the nacion of Brytayne..toke hym to theyr mercy.
1577 R. Holinshed Chron. II. 774 Vpon theyr submission, the King tooke them to mercie, vpon theyr yine, whych was seased at twentie thousand markes.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. xv. 130 [Pompey] hauing..taken them [sc. the pirates] into mercie, sent them into certaine townes..farre from the Sea.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ix. xxiv. 331 Those they tooke to mercie upon their submission.
1656 S. Holland Don Zara iii. iv. 175 Nor did the fury of the Fight take any to mercy, save Duke-la-Fool himself, and 6 more.
1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. 174 Since it is so,..I think I must take you to mercy.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. iv. 100 I was his prisoner, and he took me to mercy.
1851 Southern Literary Messenger 17 198 Ev'n while my pity Was taking thee to mercy, thou wast planning New evil to my fortunes!
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