Adjective:

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merciful's Usage Examples:

"" God will not be merciful to him who through vanity wears long trousers " (i.

"I pray God save the king," Anne herself is reported to have said on the scaffold, "and send him long to reign over you, for a gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never; and to me he was ever a good, a gentle and sovereign lord.

But consignment to a prison for lengthened periods was, as a penalty, of more recent introduction, and of still later date is the recognition of the duties incumbent upon the authority to use its powers mercifully by humane endeavours to reform and improve those on whom it laid hands.

The emperor was merciful enough to leave it in possession of its privileges, but he inflicted a fine of 80,000 gold gulden, and until October 1547 the citizens had to endure the presence of from 8000 to 10,000 soldiers.

For a long time his wife begged him to be merciful.

In these Orestes is the guilt-laden mortal who is purified from his sin by the grace of the gods, whose merciful justice is shown to all persons whose crime is mitigated by extenuating circumstances.

The belief in a God, all-wise, all-just and all-merciful, governing the world providentially for the best, pervades all his works, his correspondence and his life.

bringhort while after being brought onboard, they all mercifully passed away.

The famous letter to Pliny about the Christians is, according to Roman ideas, merciful and considerate.

Her heart lurched and pounded unmercifully.

God is merciful, birdie.

To those who he thought had been led astray, it was his policy not to be unmerciful; for, in his own words, ` it renders three desperate where it gains one.

Synonyms:

compassionate, soft, clement, humane, kind,

Antonyms:

unkind, inhumane, merciless, hard, uncompassionate, inclement,