mercifulness
Example Sentences
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I swear that, should they once take those arms, that clemency and mercifulness of yours will be changed into wo and wailing.
From The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 by Henry William Herbert
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
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 Alexander Maclaren
In this wonderful dispensation, philanthropic affairs are for all humanity without exception, because it is the manifestation of the mercifulness of God.
From Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era by J. E. (John Ebenezer) Esslemont
But the humility and lowliness of heart, the mercifulness and peace-seeking which Christ inculcated were essentially powers of self-restraint, not negative but positive attitudes to life.
From Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. C. Alexander
