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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
amercement /əˈməːsmənt/

▶noun English Law, historical a fine.

– derivatives
amerce verb.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. amerciment, based on estre amercie ‘be at the mercy of another’, from a merci ‘at (the) mercy’.

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