OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 26424

merciful

/ˈmɜːsɪfl̩/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
misericorde • misericordioso
Showing mercy.
The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
`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.'
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