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Mercifulness

noun
1.
The feeling that motivates compassion.  Synonym: mercy.
2.
A disposition to be kind and forgiving.  Synonym: mercy.
3.
Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice.  Synonyms: clemency, mercy.






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"Mercifulness" Quotes from Famous Books



... said the King with somewhat of sternness in his voice. "Now I tell thee that but for three things, to wit, my mercifulness, my love for a stout woodsman, and the loyalty thou hast avowed for me, thine ears, mayhap, might have been more tightly closed than ever a buffet from me could have shut them. Talk not lightly of thy sins, good Robin. But come, look up. ...
— The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood • Howard Pyle



Words linked to "Mercifulness" :   lenience, kindness, re-sentencing, compassionateness, commutation, respite, pity, compassion, reprieve, forgivingness, leniency, lenity, quarter, mercilessness, free pardon, pardon, humaneness, amnesty, merciful, mildness, forgiveness



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