mercifulness
- a word derived from merciful.
Example Sentences
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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 Ryle, John Charles
The animal is excused; but in man there is reason, the faculty of justice, the faculty of mercifulness.
From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá
But the humility and lowliness of heart, the mercifulness and peace-seeking which Christ inculcated were essentially powers of self-restraint, not negative but positive attitudes to life.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Alexander, Archibald B. C.
He apologizes very often for having talked and continuing to do so, but throws himself upon what he calls my mercifulness.
From We Three by Hutt, Henry
That is to say, the true, lasting, reliable, conquering mercifulness has a double source.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander
