mercifulness
Example Sentences
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But the mercifulness of a thorough investigation is that, once well done, it need not be repeated, and by saving endless blundering it also saves a family from much charitable meddling.
From Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers by Mary Ellen Richmond
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 brutality with which he spoke was so unnatural that it betrayed the mercifulness of his intention.
From The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
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
Nothing can exceed the mercifulness of this language!
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
