mercifulness

Example Sentences

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Our mercifulness, then, is a reflection from His.

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

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

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

Some birds sang melodies and harmonies, and some nightingales began to warble on the branches of the rose-tree of mercifulness.

From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

The brutality with which he spoke was so unnatural that it betrayed the mercifulness of his intention.

From The Explorer by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)