10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERCIABLE»
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merciable in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
merciable and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Middle English Dictionary
(2). merciabeli -• merciabli. merciable adj. Also (early) mearciable. [OF] (a)
Forgiving; merciful toward sinners, enemies, the vanquished; as noun: those who
forgive, the merciful; ~ place, the place of forgiveness, propitiation, or atonement;
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Hans Kurath, Robert E. Lewis, 1975
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Speculum Gy de Warewyke: An English Poem
526. merciable : also 1. 534. The suffix -able has not the force of modern English
here, but is used in an active sense to show, 1 inclined to mercy,' as is indicated
by Abbott, Shake. Gr., § 3, § 445, and illustrated by Schick, T. of Gl., 1.
Georgiana Lea Morrill, 1898
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The Governance of Kings and Princes: John Trevisa's Middle ...
5 Pe secunde, oolde men ben merciable; but as fe philosofer | seith, col. 2 olde
men and children be not merciable for fe same cause. For children ben merciable
for frendschip and olde men for feblenesse, for eche man is merciable to his ...
Giles (of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges), David C. Fowler, Charles F. Briggs, 1997
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A new dictionary of the English language ...
Matthew, c. 5. Blessed are the mercyfull : for they shall obtayne merct/e. Bible,
1551. Ib. Pray eke for us, we sinful folk unstable, That of his mercy God so
merciable. On us his grete mercie raultlplie. For reverence of his moder Marie.
Chaucer.
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Piers Plowman: Concordance
So is be holi gost god and grace Withouten mercy And melteth myhte into mercy,
as we may se a Wynter Melteth to mercy, to merciable and to non obere. Mercy
for his mekenesse Wol maky good be remenaunt. So wol Crist of his cortesye, ...
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New Readings of Chaucer's Poetry
Also original in Geoffrey's final stanza is the clearly deliberate double echo of the
word "merciable" from line 1 of the first stanza. The sixth line here reads "Ben to
the seed of Adam merciable," and the final line makes the echo especially ...
Robert G. Benson, Susan Janet Ridyard, 2003
1T Soj>[e]liche, wid-oute fable, Man, Ju most ben merciable. On Iesu Crist Jienk
witerli, Hou he deiede for merci, IT And al for he wolde merci haue Off hem fat
wolde merci craue ; For, ar he deiede in flesh &nd bon, Merci was J>er neuere
non.
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English Historical Linguistics 2006: Selected papers from ...
The properties of the denominal derivatives are an abstract, vaguely possessive
interpretation 'has N' as in, e.g., merciable. These derivatives remained a closed
set in ME. From the findings presented in the works discussed above, we can ...
Richard Dury, Maurizio Gotti, Marina Dossena, 2008
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The Works of Edmund Spenser
He is so meeke, wife, and merciable, And with his word his work is convenable.
175 Colin Clout, I weene, be his seise boye, (Ah, for Colin ! he whilome my ioye :)
Shepheards sich, God mought us many fend, That doen so carefully theyr flocks ...
Edmund Spenser, Henry John Todd, 1805
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A New Dictionary of the English Language. -London, Pickering ...
And marchauns merciable wolde be. and men of lawe bothe. Id. p. 287. So grace
of the Holy (lost. meltcth al to mc-rcy The grete myghte of the Trinlte. to mcrcyablc
and to none other. Id. p. 331. Blessid ben merciful men : for thei schal gete ...
