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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.

Mer"ci*fy (?), v. t. To
pity. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mer"ci*less, a. Destitute of
mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also,
figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant;
merciless waves.

The foe is merciless, and will not
pity.

Shak.

Syn. -- Cruel; unmerciful; remorseless; ruthless; pitiless;
barbarous; savage.

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