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merciful

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"Compassionate"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈmɜː.sɪ.fl̩/Part of speech adjectiveSorted cefilmruStarts with MEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Filled answer is this word (MERCIFUL).

Definitions

  1. (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.

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