merciful

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Showing mercy.

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Showing mercy.
`Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'
The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.

Etimologia

From Middle English merciful, mercyful, equivalent to mercy + -ful. Displaced native Old English mildheort.

Forme

comparativo: more merciful
superlativo: most merciful

merchant · A person who traffics in commodities for profit.Merchant · A surname.merci · Thank you.

merciful · Showing mercy.

merciless · Showing no mercy; cruel and pitiless.mercury · Senses relating to the metal. A silvery-coloured, metallic…Mercury · The first planet in the Solar system with the closest orbit…

Le pagine vicine — L'ordine alfabetico segue le regole della lingua, non il valore dei byte: un accento distingue soltanto due parole per il resto identiche, e lo spagnolo tratta la Ñ come una lettera a sé.