Thesaurus / merciful
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MOST RELEVANT
- charitable
- compassionate
- forgiving
- gracious
- humane
- humanitarian
- kindly
- lenient
- all heart
- beneficent
- benign
- benignant
- bleeding heart
- clement
- condoning
- easygoing
- feeling
- forbearing
- generous
- gentle
- heart in right place
- indulgent
- liberal
- mild
- pardoning
- pitiful
- pitying
- soft
- softhearted
- sympathetic
- tender
- tenderhearted
- tolerant
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But with no Devil the belief in a merciful and loving Heavenly Father becomes impossible.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
But this theory of a merciful, and loving Heavenly Father is vital to the Christian religion.
GOD AND MY NEIGHBOURROBERT BLATCHFORD
He longed for death with a full and yearning desire, and he could kiss the hand that would be merciful and give the fatal blow.
Her face was grey as the one from which she drew the merciful coverings, but her eyes went fearlessly to that which she sought.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUS
"It has been a most merciful escape," Maloney said, his pulpit voice struggling with his emotion.
THREE MORE JOHN SILENCE STORIESALGERNON BLACKWOOD
How many prayers, petitions, and thanksgivings ascend daily to the throne of this our exalted and merciful protectress!
MARY, HELP OF CHRISTIANSVARIOUS
Some thought him too merciful, and one of his followers asked Burghley to give him a private hint inculcating severity.
IRELAND UNDER THE TUDORS, VOL. II (OF 3)RICHARD BAGWELL
The early Persians chose the bravest and most capable of their nobles for kings, and these kings were mild and merciful.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORD
The magistrates approved the request of the merciful physician, and Felicie was permitted to attend her mistress.
JUANAHONORE DE BALZAC
I would say that she had been merciful and kind, and that one in this world would pray for her when she needed prayers most.
MRS. FALCHION, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKER
WORDS RELATED TO MERCIFUL
- all heart
- being big
- benevolent
- bleeding heart
- charitable
- commiserative
- forbearing
- going easy on
- humane
- humanitarian
- indulgent
- kindhearted
- kindly
- lenient
- living with
- merciful
- old softie
- piteous
- pitying
- responsive
- soft shell
- softhearted
- sparing
- sympathetic
- tender
- tenderhearted
- understanding
- warm
- warmhearted
- accommodating
- amenable
- benign
- biddable
- charitable
- clement
- compassionate
- compliant
- condoning
- deceivable
- deludable
- dupable
- easygoing
- excusing
- exploitable
- fleeceable
- flexible
- forbearing
- forgiving
- gentle
- gullible
- humoring
- indulgent
- kindly
- lax
- lenient
- liberal
- light
- merciful
- mild
- moderate
- naive
- pampering
- pardoning
- soft
- spoiling
- submissive
- susceptible
- sympathetic
- temperate
- tractable
- trusting
- unburdensome
- unoppressive
- unsuspicious
- accommodating
- amenable
- benign
- biddable
- charitable
- clement
- compassionate
- compliant
- condoning
- deceivable
- deludable
- dupable
- easygoing
- excusing
- exploitable
- fleeceable
- flexible
- forbearing
- forgiving
- gentle
- gullible
- humoring
- indulgent
- kindly
- lax
- lenient
- liberal
- light
- merciful
- mild
- moderate
- naive
- pampering
- pardoning
- soft
- spoiling
- submissive
- susceptible
- sympathetic
- temperate
- tractable
- trusting
- unburdensome
- unoppressive
- unsuspicious
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