give quarter

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Roget 914: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity etc. n.; commiserate, compassionate; condole etc. 915; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.    forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis [Lat.], give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery.    raise pity, excite pity etc. n.; touch, soften; melt, melt the heart; propitiate, disarm.    ask for mercy etc. v.; supplicate etc. (request) 765; cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel; deprecate.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 740: be lenient etc. adj.; tolerate, bear with; parcere subjectis [Lat.], give quarter.    indulge, allow one to have his own way, spoil.   

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