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Miserere

[ miz-uh-rair-ee, -reer-ee ]

noun

  1. the 51st Psalm, or the 50th in the Douay Bible.
  2. a musical setting for it.
  3. (lowercase) a prayer or expression of appeal for mercy.
  4. (lowercase) misericord ( def 3 ).


miserere

1

/ ˌmɪzəˈrɛərɪ; -ˈrɪərɪ /

noun

  1. another word for misericord


Miserere

2

/ ˌmɪzəˈrɛərɪ; -ˈrɪərɪ /

noun

  1. the 51st psalm, the Latin version of which begins "Miserere mei, Deus" ("Have mercy on me, O God")

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Word History and Origins

Origin of Miserere1

From the Latin word miserēre literally, have pity (imperative), first word of the psalm

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Example Sentences

They don't look as if they'd care for carving; but they've been studying every one of the Miserere seats in the choir-stalls.

An old man, a very old man, sat on an upturned clamhod and yawled a discordant miserere on a fiddle.

On reaching the suburbs of the city they wheeled to the left, and late in the afternoon drew near to the Plaza Miserere.

Surely the Corrales de la Miserere had taught them plain enough that their troops could not meet those of England on equal terms!

As the day dawned a salvo of twenty-one British guns on the Plaza Miserere gave the signal.

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