amercements
Meaning of amercements
- a fine.
courts continued to impose small amercements
default resulted in heavy amercement
late Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French amerciment, based on estre en la merci ‘be at the mercy of another’ (with respect to the amount of a fine).
Information about amercements
- It is a name.
- The singular form of amercements is: amercement.
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Hyphenation of amercements
amerce-ments
- It consists of 2 syllables and 11 chars.
- amercements is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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