Definition of Mercy

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Definition of Mercy

Mercy

Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.

Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.

Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.

A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.

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Mercy Quotations

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Abraham Lincoln

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
William Shakespeare

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

Nothing can make injustice just but mercy.
Robert Frost

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
John Calvin

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.
Thomas Paine

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph Campbell

Mercy Translations

mercy in German is Barmherzigkeit, Mitleid
mercy in Italian is impietosire
mercy in Latin is clementia, misericordia
mercy in Spanish is conmiseracion, misericordia

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