mercement
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Either aphetic form of amercement; or borrowed independently from Anglo-Norman merciment, aphetic form of amerciment.
Noun
[edit]mercement (plural mercements)
- (obsolete) An amercement, a punishment. [14th–19th c.]
- 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.