NOUN
- the feeling that motivates compassion
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a disposition to be kind and forgiving
in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband -
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
he threw himself on the mercy of the court
How To Use mercifulness In A Sentence
- A Samaritan is used as an example of the mercifulness that all disciples ought to demonstrate.
- His belief in God's abiding mercifulness leads him to conclude that the torment of hell cannot be eternal: ‘there was a time when sin did not exist, and there will be a time when it will not exist’.
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- In the great competition of the confessional groups for the adherence of men which ensued, Calvinism tried to impress by the sternness of its moral code, the extremity of its disciplinary com - mands, while Catholicism strove to attract by the mercifulness of its methods, by its willingness to build golden bridges for the repentant sinner and keep the CASUISTRY
- He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness. Autumn
- For we find the forgiveness of our trespasses in the forgiving of our brothers; and the mercy of God is hidden in mercifulness to our neighbor.
- Pilate is out of his league as he faces Jesus' strong resistance, mysterious mercifulness and unrelenting compassion.
- The designation Good Samaritan has become so associated with the idea of mercifulness, that I doubt not there are many persons who have the impression that Samaritans in the ancient Hebrew days were people specially noted for their benevolent disposition. The Essentials of Spirituality
- To have entered into that atmosphere would have defeated my purpose, which was to show a great and genuine progress in Christendom in these few later generations toward mercifulness — a wide and general relaxing of the grip of the law. Mark Twain: A Biography
- The sad irony of it all is that God's infinite mercifulness extends to the nether limits where our present breed of politicians abound.