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overmerciful

  • a word derived from merciful.
    merciful
    adjective
    full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate.

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Something, indeed, must be ascribed to her own methods of warfare which appear to have been overmerciful for the age.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by F. (Frank) Brinkley