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单词 small mercies
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small mercies
5. An act of (esp. divine) mercy; an event or circumstance calling for special thankfulness. Now also in weakened sense: a blessing, a relief; a positive aspect to a generally bad situation (frequently in small mercies). one's mercies n. good things received from God.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > [noun] > prospering influence
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sunshine1577
the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > mercy > having or showing > an act of
work (also deed, duty) of mercy1357
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a1400 Psalter (Egerton) lxxxviii. 1 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 221 (MED) Mercis of lauerd ouer al, In euer-mare singe I sal.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxxviii. 1 The mercys of our lord, that is, the thyngis that god mercifully has done til mannys kynde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms xxiv. 6 Call to remembraunce, O Lorde, thy tender mercyes & thy louinge kyndnesses.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) v. i. 483 Thou'rt condemn'd, But for those earthly faults, I quit them all, And pray thee take this mercie to prouide For better times to come. View more context for this quotation
1651 O. Cromwell Let. 4 Sept. (1845) The dimensions of this mercy are above my thought. It is for aught I know a crowning mercy.
1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 518 Thou must not onely praise God for some extraordinary mercy, which once in a year betides thee,..but also for ordinary, every-day mercies.
a1716 R. South 12 Serm. (1717) VI. 261 Deliverance out of Temptation is undoubtedly one of the greatest Mercies, that God vouchsafes his People.
1765 J. Brown Christian Jrnl. 280 What a mercy for weak and halt me, that the way is here pathed.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. i. 12 I know your good father would term this Sinning my mercies.
1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre II. v. 126 What a mercy you are shod with velvet, Jane!—a clod-hopping messenger would never do.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xii. 172 There was even room to doubt whether Tom appreciated his mercies.
1880 Jrnl. Statist. Soc. 43 104 It is small changes in production and consumption, which produce all these effects; people are thankful for small mercies.
1900 J. Conrad Lord Jim xxxvi. 367 The old chap goes on equably trusting Providence and the established order of the universe, but alive to its small dangers and its small mercies.
1925 V. Woolf Mrs. Dalloway 236 He was a man. But not the sort of man one had to respect—which was a mercy.
1932 J. Masefield Coll. Poems 211 There was one mercy: that it ended quick.
1976 R. Bulter Shaela 33 A'm aye towt hit a mercy at aa dir peerie tings Grew up to be dat helty.
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