Tra từ mercy - Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

mercy [mercy mercies] BrE [ˈmɜːsi] NAmE [ˈmɜːrsi] noun (pl. mercies)
1. uncountable a kind or forgiving attitude towards sb that you have the power to harm or right to punish
Syn: ↑humanity
•to ask/beg/plead for mercy
•They showed no mercy to their hostages.
•God have mercy on us.
•The troops are on a mercy mission (= a journey to help people) in the war zone.
2. countable, usually singular (informal)an event or a situation to be grateful for, usually because it stops sth unpleasant
•It's a mercy she wasn't seriously hurt.
•His death was a mercy (= because he was in great pain).
see also ↑merciful, ↑merciless
more at grateful/thankful for small mercies at ↑small _adj.
Idioms: ↑at the mercy of somebody ▪ ↑leave somebody to the mercy of somebody ▪ ↑throw yourself on somebody's mercy

Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French merci ‘pity’ or ‘thanks’, from Latin merces, merced- ‘reward’, in Christian Latin ‘pity, favour, heavenly reward’.

Thesaurus:
mercy noun U
•The prisoners begged for mercy.
forgiveness • • grace • |formal pardon • • clemency • • charity •
divine mercy/forgiveness/grace
ask (for) mercy/forgiveness/pardon
show no/receive mercy/forgiveness/charity

Example Bank:
•God have mercy on us!
•God's infinite mercy
•He asked for mercy for the crimes he had committed.
•I left him to the tender mercies of his mother.
•I suppose we should be grateful for small mercies.
•The mission of the church is to extend mercy to the needy.
•The terrorists are completely without mercy.
•There shall be no mercy for my enemies.
•They showed no mercy to their captives.
•We're at the mercy of the weather.
•a mercy mission to deliver medical supplies and equipment
•I'm not going to put myself at the mercy of the bank.
•The prisoners begged for mercy.
•The troops are on a mercy mission in the war zone.