mercifulness
Example Sentences
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They regarded humility and mercifulness as the greatest virtues.
From Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) by Velimirović, Nikolai
It is not sufficient to exercise the passive virtue of meekness; there must be the active one of mercifulness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander
But there was no compassion, no mercifulness in their faces as they looked down at her.
From From Place to Place by Cobb, Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury)
He is the unwearied compassion, the long-suffering pity, the never-ceasing mercifulness of God to every want and infirmity of human nature.
From The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Abbey, Charles J. (Charles John)
The brutality with which he spoke was so unnatural that it betrayed the mercifulness of his intention.
From The Explorer by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
