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mercifulness   (TTS Sound)

The noun mercifulness has 3 senses

• mercifulness, mercy -- (the feeling that motivates compassion)


• mercifulness, mercy -- (a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband")


• clemency, mercifulness, mercy -- (leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court")