miserere.

1. A name for the penitential psalm commonly numbered fifty-one, beginning with a plea for mercy, or a prayer using it.

2. A musical composition setting the Miserere psalm or its text.

Use it for

Words that belong together

• recite the Miserere
• the penitential Miserere

On the page

The priest began the Miserere before the household had settled into silence.

She found the Miserere copied beside prayers in a different hand.

Usage notes

Primary category: gothic. Forms: Singular miserere; plural misereres. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.