mercifulness

  • 1mercifulness — index clemency, humanity (humaneness), lenience, pity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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  • 2mercifulness — clemency, forbearance, tolerance, leniency, indulgence (see under FORBEARING) Analogous words: *mercy, clemency, lenity, charity, grace: compassion, commiseration, pity, ruth (see SYMPATHY) Contrasted words: severeness or severity, sternness (see …

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  • 3mercifulness — noun 1. the feeling that motivates compassion • Syn: ↑mercy • Derivationally related forms: ↑merciful • Hypernyms: ↑compassion, ↑compassionateness • Hyponyms: ↑ …

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  • 4Mercifulness — Merciful Mer ci*ful, a. [Mercy + ful.] 1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Opposite of {merciless}. [1913 Webster] The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6.… …

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  • 5mercifulness — noun see merciful …

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  • 6mercifulness — See mercifully. * * * …

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  • 7mercifulness — noun The state of being merciful; mercy …

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  • 8mercifulness — Synonyms and related words: acceptance, bleeding heart, bowels of compassion, clemency, clementness, compassion, compassionateness, easiness, easygoingness, forbearance, forbearing, gentleness, humaneness, humanity, laxness, lenience, leniency,… …

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  • 9mercifulness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Kind, forgiving, or compassionate treatment of or disposition toward others: charity, clemency, grace, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy. See FORGIVENESS …

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  • 10mercifulness — mer·ci·ful·ness || mÉœrsɪfÊŠlnɪs / mɜːs n. compassionateness, being merciful …

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