Pronounced: ho-MAH-nuh-muhs, adj
Notes: I knew one of the definitions
Yesterday’s word
The word amerce means “to punish; especially by a fine whose amounts are fixed by a court”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1200s
Background / Comments
Our word started with the Old French phrase a merci (at [one’s] mercy). It then became the Anglo-French word amercier – with the same meaning as our word – and then became the Middle English word amercien, which was later modernized to amerce.
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