mercifulness

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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 Kerr, Robert

It is a desperate enterprise, and would be both rash and indelicate if the mercifulness of it did not demand the sacrifice.

From The Last of the Vikings by Bowling, John

I will not go, your mercifulness," he said; "and if you will believe my honest word, it were better that you did not slay this wolf either.

From Gunpowder Treason and Plot And Other Stories for Boys by Avery, Harold

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 Kayll, James Leslie Allan

That is no forgiveness, and that is no mercifulness It is not enough to stand still, unresisting.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII by Maclaren, Alexander