merciful

Rosina, when she saw me cooling, had no such merciful contraption ready.
Owning Up to Possession’s Downside|Samantha Harvey|December 14, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Why is Putin feeling so merciful all of a sudden to his political enemies?
Why Is Putin Pardoning His Political Enemies?|Anna Nemtsova|December 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The death carried an all-the-more-powerful message because Julius Caesar was famously merciful to defeated enemies.
Who Was the Real Cato?|David Frum|December 20, 2012|DAILY BEAST
All Muslims assert that God is most merciful, most compassionate.
My Meetings With the Man Behind the Mosque|Brad Gooch|August 19, 2010|DAILY BEAST

I'd been so irrationally certain of merciful miracles; he was supposed to live forever.
My Martha's Vineyard Close Encounter|Patricia J. Williams|August 29, 2009|DAILY BEAST
But with no Devil the belief in a merciful and loving Heavenly Father becomes impossible.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
But this theory of a merciful, and loving Heavenly Father is vital to the Christian religion.
God and my Neighbour|Robert Blatchford
He longed for death with a full and yearning desire, and he could kiss the hand that would be merciful and give the fatal blow.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
Her face was grey as the one from which she drew the merciful coverings, but her eyes went fearlessly to that which she sought.
Uncanny Tales|Various
"It has been a most merciful escape," Maloney said, his pulpit voice struggling with his emotion.
Three More John Silence Stories|Algernon Blackwood

British Dictionary definitions for merciful

merciful

/ (ˈmɜːsɪfʊl) /

adjective

showing or giving mercy; compassionate

Derived forms of merciful

mercifulness, noun

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