merciment

Middle English

Noun

merciment (plural merciments)

  1. mercement
    • c. 1385, William Langland, Piers Plowman, section I:
      Riȝt so is loue a ledere · and þe lawe shapeth / Vpon man for his mysdedes · þe merciment he taxeth.
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