mercifulness
Example Sentences
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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
The heart, in its mercifulness and goodness, can pardon while mindful of the betrayal; the flesh has no nobility of pride; in yielding anew it forgets.
From Artist and Model (The Divorced Princess) by Ren? de Pont-Jest
Our mercifulness, then, is a reflection from His.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
Was not the practice said to have been adopted at Jaffa by an extraordinary character, to be esteemed for mercifulness in comparison of this?
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
That is to say, the true, lasting, reliable, conquering mercifulness has a double source.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Alexander Maclaren
