mercifulness

Example Sentences

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The tendency is toward too great mercifulness, which spoils the character of the nation, just as leniency to the developing child spoils individual character.

From Psychotherapy by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)

The animal is excused; but in man there is reason, the faculty of justice, the faculty of mercifulness.

From Foundations of World Unity by `Abdu'l-Bahá

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

The saint and the heroic kings died, but their souls lived still in the hearts of their people, in the white churches they built among the green mountains, in their deeds of mercifulness and repentance.

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

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