Usually means: Act of showing mercy, compassion.
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General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. misericordia: Merriam-Webster
  2. Misericordia, misericordia: Wordnik
  3. misericordia: Wiktionary
  4. Misericordia, misericordia: Dictionary.com
  5. Misericordia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  6. Misericordia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  7. misericordia: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  8. Misericordia, misericordia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. misericordia: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Misericordia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. misericordia: Legal dictionary

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  1. Misericordia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (misericordia)

noun:  (law, obsolete) An amercement.
noun:  (historical) A misericord, a thin-bladed dagger, used in the Middle Ages to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary.
noun:  An indulgence as to food or dress granted to a member of a religious order.
noun:  A charitable institution, established by royal foundation and managed by a religious order for providing care to the poor, the sick, prisoners, orphans, etc.
noun:  One or all of the members of the religious order that operates a misericordia.
noun:  A song that is sung as part of a service asking for God's mercy.
noun:  Compassionate mercy.

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