mercifulness
Example Sentences
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Was not the practice said to have been adopted at Jaffa by an extraordinary character, to be esteemed for mercifulness in comparison of this?
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16 by Robert Kerr
Poverty of spirit, humility, meekness, mercifulness, and peaceableness are indeed the marks of Christ's teaching.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander
Nothing can exceed the mercifulness of this language!
From Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by John Charles Ryle
The mercifulness of this punishment is seen in its power in thus effectively stopping the tendency to crime.
From A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science by James Leslie Allan Kayll
Yes, may the mercifulness and the overwhelming help of Him who was born of me be with thee everywhere where thou choosest to go.
From Caucasian Legends by Abraam Abraamovich Goulbat
