mercifulness

Nouns

  • (n) the feeling that motivates compassion mercy,
  • (n) a disposition to be kind and forgiving
    • in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband
    mercy,
  • (n) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
    • he threw himself on the mercy of the court
    mercy, clemency,

Synonyms

mercy clemency

Antonyms

unmercifulness mercilessness

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