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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#m1)

2) (church, Bible) Christians believe God is merciful, forgiving people who are sorry; Muslims call God «the Most Merciful». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#m2)

3) Bringing relief from something bad: «a merciful release», «mercifully short». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#x1)
- The merciful king let the prisoner go free. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#x2)
- «Blessed are the merciful.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#x3)
- The talk was mercifully short. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#x4)
- Be merciful to animals. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#x5)
- Muslims begin with «In the name of God, the Most Merciful». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/#x6)

### 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,](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.685/)
- [With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.236/)
- [The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.307/)
- [Nevertheless in Thy manifold mercies Thou didst not utterly consume them, nor forsake them; for Thou art a gracious and merciful God.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/NEH.272/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «merciful» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/merciful/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.