mercifulness

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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 Alexander, Archibald B. C.

Robespierre himself, the immaculate, the saint, has sinned from mildness, mercifulness; his faults are wiped out by his martyrdom.

From The Gods are Athirst by Jackson, Emilie

That is to say, the true, lasting, reliable, conquering mercifulness has a double source.

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

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

They regarded humility and mercifulness as the greatest virtues.

From Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) by Velimirović, Nikolai