mercy
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(noun) alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy" |
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Related Words: ministration, relief, succor, succour |
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(noun) something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive" |
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Related Words: blessing, boon |
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(noun) a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband" |
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Synonyms: mercifulness |
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Related Words: compassion, forgivingness, humaneness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mildness, pity |
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(noun) the feeling that motivates compassion |
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Synonyms: mercifulness |
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Related Words: compassion, compassionateness, forgiveness |
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(noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court" |
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Synonyms: clemency, mercifulness |
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Related Words: amnesty, commutation, free pardon, lenience, leniency, pardon, re-sentencing, reprieve, respite |
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