Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples
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Word:
merciful
IPA transcription: [m'ɝsɪfəl]
Pronunciations of merciful
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adverb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
merciful
Meaning:
showing or giving mercy; "sought merciful treatment for the captives"; "a merciful god"
Usage examples
"Oh, merciful Heaven?
He was merciful and washed away my sins.
God is merciful; pray to God, sir, pray to God."
"Merciful Heaven!" she wailed; "he's shot a fox!"
A few might, perhaps, have been merciful, but they were overborne by numbers.
It is the most wonderful thing that I have ever heard of, and the most merciful too."
It was sheer stupidity, since nothing could have been more merciful than to lose this reality.
"We suffer pain and poverty," he would say, "because we do not pray to the merciful God as we should.
As forgiveness is one of the attributes of the Merciful One, so also justice is one of the attributes of the Lord.
In her interests, the wise thing and the merciful thing to do was to conciliate the fellow before I left the house.
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