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"Compassionate"2 answers
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Filled answer is this word (MERCIFUL).
Definitions
(used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious
Word origin
From Middle English merciful, mercyful, equivalent to mercy + -ful. Displaced native Old English mildheort.
Used in a sentence
“`Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'”
“The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Compassionate”8 letters
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