Betekenis van:
merciful

merciful
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
  • met medegevoel
  • showing or having compassion

Synoniemen

Hyperoniemen

merciful
Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
    • (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious
    "our merciful king"
    merciful
    Bijvoeglijk naamwoord
      • showing or giving mercy
      "sought merciful treatment for the captives"
      "a merciful god"

      Voorbeeldzinnen

      1. Be merciful.
      2. She is merciful.
      3. Tom is merciful.
      4. I am not nice, I am merciful.
      5. In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
      6. Be wise and pray to a merciful god.
      7. In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful.
      8. In the name of God, The most Gracious, The most Merciful.
      9. Svetlana was a little too merciful with the feeder mice down at the pet store. The snakes nearly starved!
      10. I do plainly and ingenuously confess that I am guilty of corruption, and do renounce all defense. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.
      11. The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.