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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



... meet, and the mystery of the possibility of their harmonious co-operation in the divine government is solved, and becomes the occasion for the rapturous gratitude of man and the wondering adoration of principalities and powers in heavenly places. Jesus has manifested the divine mercifulness; Jesus has borne the burden of sin and the weight of the divine Justice. The lips that said 'Be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee,' also cried, 'Why hast Thou forsaken Me?' The tenderest manifestation of the God 'plenteous in mercy ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren


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


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