English noun: mercifulness |
1. | mercifulness (feeling) the feeling that motivates compassion |
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| Synonyms | mercy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | compassion, compassionateness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | forgiveness |
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2. | mercifulness (attribute) a disposition to be kind and forgiving |
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| Samples | In those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband.
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| Synonyms | mercy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | humaneness |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | compassion, forgivingness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mildness, pity |
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| Antonyms | unmercifulness, mercilessness |
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3. | mercifulness (act) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice |
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| Samples | He threw himself on the mercy of the court.
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| Synonyms | clemency, mercy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | lenience, leniency |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | amnesty, commutation, free pardon, pardon, quarter, re-sentencing, reprieve, respite |
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