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What does merciful mean?

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Adjective
  1. showing mercy
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It was perhaps merciful release for Wright-Phillips when his number was held up by the fourth official.
I'm happy and glad to see that God is merciful and generous towards all people, whether they are religious or not.
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?
Ariadne poses against a rocky outcrop and raises her hand in a rhetorical gesture that makes her seem irate and merciful, proud and humble.
Having a majority of eleven against him, the wise juryman consented to a merciful verdict of death by misadventure.
The difficult task is to find ways of being merciful to the guilty without being cruel to the innocent.

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