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What does merciful mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word merciful? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. showing mercy
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Confused he walked back to dying chief, he was calling out for a merciful death.
Nay, not whooty freed, for crime lies in intent, and is not washed away because a merciful fate baffles its committal and its commission.
The difficult task is to find ways of being merciful to the guilty without being cruel to the innocent.
The overwhelming consensus is that the lack of knowledge is probably the merciful way it should be.
The Mighty alone can afford to be merciful and therefore where else can the prodigal son return but to the parental doors of the Government?
It was perhaps merciful release for Wright-Phillips when his number was held up by the fourth official.

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