mercifulness
Example Sentences
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He will rule the world by mercifulness when we forgive each other, but not before.
From Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) by Nikolai Velimirović
Before I go further, I would point out the connection between this incumbent duty of mercifulness and the preceding virtue of meekness.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
In this wonderful dispensation, philanthropic affairs are for all humanity without exception, because it is the manifestation of the mercifulness of God.
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont
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 Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey
The tendency is toward too great mercifulness, which spoils the character of the nation, just as leniency to the developing child spoils individual character.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
