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mercifulness
 
Noun mercifulness has 3 senses
  1. mercifulness, mercy - the feeling that motivates compassion
    --1 is a kind of compassion, compassionateness
    --1 has particulars: forgiveness
  2. mercifulness, mercy - a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"
    --2 is a kind of humaneness
    Antonyms: mercilessness, unmercifulness
    --2 has particulars:
     compassion, pity; forgivingness, kindness; lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity
  3. 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"
    --3 is a kind of lenience, leniency
    --3 has particulars:
     commutation, re-sentencing; amnesty, pardon, free pardon; reprieve, respite
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