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English
Interjection
God-a-mercy
- (obsolete) Eye dialect spelling of God have mercy: an exclamation of dismay or of relief.
c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 2:Baſt[ard]. A foot of Honor better then I was,
But many a many foot of Land the worſe.
Well, now can I make any Ioane a Lady,
Good den Sir Richard, Godamercy fellow,
And if his name be George, Ile call him Peter;
For new made honor doth forget mens names: […]