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a-muÌ‚rs´: Found in the King James Version only in , “And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver.†Amerce is a legal term derived from the French (à = “atâ€; merci = “mercy,†i.e. literally, “at the mercy†(of the court)). Here it is used of the imposing of a fine, according to the Law of Moses, upon the man who has been proven by the Elders to have brought a false charge against the virginity of the maid he has married by saying to the father, “I found not thy daughter a maid.