mercifulness

The amazing mercifulness of God, and the awfulness of supposing that many around us will be lost eternally, he has handled fully and with characteristic rhetoric.

The tendency is toward too great mercifulness, which spoils the character of the nation, just as leniency to the developing child spoils individual character.

I will not go, your mercifulness," he said; "and if you will believe my honest word, it were better that you did not slay this wolf either.

It is a desperate enterprise, and would be both rash and indelicate if the mercifulness of it did not demand the sacrifice.

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.