merciful
adjective
mercifulness
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a word derived from
merciful.
Example Sentences
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Poverty of spirit, humility, meekness, mercifulness, and peaceableness are indeed the marks of Christ's teaching.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander
The selectest emotions, the lowliest faith, the loftiest aspirations, the deepest consciousness of one's own unworthiness—these priceless elements of personal religion—are of little worth unless there are inseparably linked with them meekness, mercifulness, and peacemaking.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
Nothing can exceed the mercifulness of this language!
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
They regarded humility and mercifulness as the greatest virtues.
From Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) by Nikolai Velimirović
Robespierre himself, the immaculate, the saint, has sinned from mildness, mercifulness; his faults are wiped out by his martyrdom.
From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson
