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Definition of merciful:
Synonyms:
benign, sympathetic, compassionate, tender-hearted, understanding, kindly, uplifting, tender, feeling, cheerful, good, thoughtful, soft, attitude, pleasing, humane, indulgent, pitying, accept, pitiful, cruel, pitiless, gentle, satisfying, joyous, heartwarming, gracious, charitable, clement, joyful, kind-hearted, benevolent, easy, human, forbearing, magnanimous, sparing, mild, exhilarating, life-affirming, lax, kind, humanitarian, benignant, lenient.
Usage examples:
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You are a merciful one- the only merciful one, so far as I know- among men.
- "Blind Love", Wilkie Collins. -
They now said he had been guided by a strange but merciful Providence to his old home.
- "Looking Seaward Again", Walter Runciman. -
I don't know just what Ozma will do to you, because this is the first time one of us has broken a Law; but you may be sure she will be just and merciful.
- "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", L. Frank Baum.