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Noun
- alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed
- distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy
- something for which to be thankful
- it was a mercy we got out alive
- the feeling that motivates compassion
- a disposition to be kind and forgiving
- in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband
- leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
- he threw himself on the mercy of the court