Associations to the word «Misericordia»

Wiktionary

MISERICORDIA, noun. (legal) (obsolete) An amercement.
MISERICORDIA, noun. A thin-bladed dagger, used in the Middle Ages to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary.
MISERICORDIA, noun. An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats