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Definition of Merciful

Merciful
Merciful Mer"ci*ful, a. [Mercy + -ful.] 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.

Meaning of Merciful from wikipedia

- need give no reasons for granting it or for denying it." The concept of a merciful God appears in various religions, including Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism...
- Merciful Release is a record label started by Andrew Eldritch, frontman with Leeds band the Sisters of Mercy. As Eldritch stated in an early interview...
- The epithet the Merciful may refer to: Ashot III of Armenia (died 977), Armenian king John the Merciful (c. 552-between 616 and 620), Patriarch of Alexandria...
- of the Islamic phrase "In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful" (Arabic: بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ, bi-smi llāhi r-raḥmāni...
- John the Almsgiver, John the Almoner, John the Comp****ionate, or John the Merciful, was the Chalcedonian/Melkite Patriarch of Alexandria in the early 7th...
- The Merciful Knight is a watercolour by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which was completed in 1863 and is currently housed at the Birmingham...
- anglicized as Raheem) is an Arabic word meaning "Merciful", from the root R-Ḥ-M. Al-Rahim (the Merciful) is one of the attributes of God according to Islam...
- Ar-Rahman (Arabic: ٱلرَّحْمَانِ, ar-raḥmān; meaning: The Merciful; Most Gracious; Most Merciful ) is the 55th Chapter (Surah) of the Qur'an, with 78 verses...
- helped the formation of what is now the Congregation of the Sisters of Merciful Jesus. In an entry in her diary on 8 February 1935, (Notebook I, item 378)...
- John the Hairy (Russian: Иоанн Власатый, also known as John the Merciful of Rostov) was a holy fool (Yurodivy), of the Russian Orthodox Church in the second...