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Merciful

//ˈmɜːsɪfl̩// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Showing mercy.

    "`Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious wordnet
  2. 2
    showing or giving mercy wordnet

Etymology

From Middle English merciful, mercyful, equivalent to mercy + -ful. Displaced native Old English mildheort.

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