merciful

«merciful» in Mova's school dictionary: Showing mercy: kind and forgiving to someone you could… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (merciful, more merciful, most merciful); adverb mercifully

meaning for a pupil

1) Showing mercy: kind and forgiving to someone you could punish or harm. tree →

2) (church, Bible) Christians believe God is merciful, forgiving people who are sorry; Muslims call God «the Most Merciful». tree →

3) Bringing relief from something bad: «a merciful release», «mercifully short». tree →

sense in the lessons

In religion lessons «Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy» is a Beatitude; the Islamic phrase «In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful» begins most chapters of the Qur'an. In stories a merciful king spares his enemy. Phrases: «merciful God», «a merciful act», «mercifully short».

examples

• God is merciful and forgives those who are sorry. tree →
• The merciful king let the prisoner go free. tree →
• «Blessed are the merciful.» tree →
• The talk was mercifully short. tree →
• Be merciful to animals. tree →
• Muslims begin with «In the name of God, the Most Merciful». tree →

note

Spelled with one l at the end. Noun: mercy. Opposite: merciless, cruel. «Mercifully» can mean «luckily, thankfully»: «Mercifully, it stopped raining.»

In the corpora

• With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright,
• With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright;
• The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.
• Nevertheless in Thy manifold mercies Thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for Thou art a gracious and merciful God.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «merciful» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.