单词 | to cry mercy |
释义 | > as lemmasto cry (a person) mercy c. [After Anglo-Norman, Old French crier merci (12th cent.).] to cry (a person) mercy: to beg for pardon or forgiveness. Hence (in weakened sense) in phrases expressing polite apology, esp. I cry you mercy (frequently with ellipsis of subject pronoun in direct speech); cf. I beg your pardon at pardon n.1 7a. Now archaic.The personal object is expressed by indirect object or (occasionally) to, on, upon. In Middle English also to ask, bid, beseech, crave, seek mercy. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > excite pity [verb (intransitive)] > ask for mercy to cry (a person) mercyc1225 to cry quarter1720 the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > affect with pity [verb (transitive)] > ask for mercy to cry (a person) mercyc1225 society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > forgiveness > grant forgiveness [verb (intransitive)] > ask forgiveness to cry (a person) mercyc1225 beg pardon1604 beg excuse1734 c1225 Lofsong Lefdi (Royal) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 305 Ich..creie lefdi merci [a1250 Nero and creie þe, leafdi, merci]. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 37 Þencheð hwat ȝe habbeð..iwraððet oure lauerd. & crieð ȝeorne [c1230 Corpus crieð him ȝeorne] merci & for ȝeouenesse. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 42 (MED) To oure lorde Mercy he cryþ, and biddeþ hym Mercy and misericorde. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2789 Ȝerne on þaim he cried merci. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. 13 (MED) Þe kynge cride to abraam mercy. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 81/1 Whan they repente..and crye their god mercy. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxi. 249 Syr, I crye you mercy for goddes sake doo not to me so grete an outrage. a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) i. 639 To cry mercy is to late The wayne than standand at the yhat. 1578 G. Whetstone Promos & Cassandra: 2nd Pt. iii. ii. I iij b O I ken you nowe syr, chy crie you mercie. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie iv. ii. sig. F4 I crie you mercy I tooke you for a ioynd stoole. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) v. iv. 93 Oh, cry you mercy sir, I haue mistooke. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal i. 3 No, cry you mercy: this is my book. 1681 J. Dryden Spanish Fryar iv. i 49 I cry thee mercy with all my heart, for suspecting a Fryar of the least good-nature. 1721 C. Cibber Refusal iv. 56 O! cry you mercy, Sir; you have great reason to defend her, I don't question. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc vii. 521 This Alençon..Cried mercy to his conqueror. 1860 M. C. Conkling Amer. Gentleman's Guide Politeness & Fashion 44 ‘Well, ladies,’ said I, ‘I cry you mercy.’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 322 Cry you mercy, gentlemen, he said humbly. 1993 P. Ackroyd House of Dr. Dee (1994) i. 28 Oh you are a Platonist, sir. I cry you mercy. I took you to be a maker of engines. < as lemmas |
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