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Word Meanings - MERCIFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give

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1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give pain; compassionate. A merciful man will be merciful to his beast. Old Proverb. Syn. -- Compassionate; tender; humane; gracious; kind; mild; clement; benignant. -- Mer"ci*ful*ly, adv. -- Mer"ci*ful*ness, n.

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  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • FRAILNESS
    Frailty.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • BENEFICENT
    , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
  • TENDERLY
    In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
  • JEALOUSHOOD
    Jealousy. Shak.
  • DELICATE
    1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
  • TENDERNESS
    The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • BENEVOLENT
    Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
  • GENTLE
    1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.
  • FRAILTY
    1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
  • YIELDABLE
    Disposed to yield or comply. -- Yield"a*ble*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
  • BENEFICENTLY
    In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
  • FRAIL
    A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
  • YIELDANCE
    1. The act of producing; yield; as, the yieldance of the earth. Bp. Hall. 2. The act of yielding; concession. South.
  • MERCIFUL
    1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak. 2. Unwilling to give
  • WITHDRAWAL
    The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. Fielding.
  • EFFEMINATE
    1. Having some characteristic of a woman, as delicacy, luxuriousness, etc.; soft or delicate to an unmanly degree; womanish; weak. The king, by his voluptuous life and mean marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon.
  • YIELDING
    Inclined to give way, or comply; flexible; compliant; accommodating; as, a yielding temper. Yielding and paying , the initial words of that clause in leases in which the rent to be paid by the lessee is mentioned and reserved. Burrill. Syn. --
  • TENDER
    A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
  • SYMPATHETIC
    1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
  • YIELD
    pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
  • TAFFRAIL
    The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
  • INCIVIL
    Uncivil; rude. Shak.
  • DISGRACIOUS
    Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
  • THEOPATHETIC; THEOPATHIC
    Of or pertaining to a theopathy.
  • UNCIVILIZATION
    The state of being uncivilized; savagery or barbarism.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.

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