mercy
Noun
-
Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice (synset 101073335)
"he threw himself on the mercy of the court"is a type of: lenience, leniency - lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teacherssubtypes:
- commutation, re-sentencing - (law) the reduction in severity of a punishment imposed by law
- amnesty, free pardon, pardon - the formal act of liberating someone
- quarter - clemency or mercy shown to a defeated opponent
- reprieve, respite - the act of reprieving; postponing or remitting punishment
same as: clemency, mercifulness -
A disposition to be kind and forgiving (synset 104836513)
"in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"is a type of: humaneness - the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals)subtypes:
- compassion, pity - the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
- forgivingness, kindness - tendency to be kind and forgiving
- lenience, leniency, lenity, mildness - mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant
same as: mercifulness -
The feeling that motivates compassion (synset 107570065)
is a type of: compassion, compassionateness - a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's sufferingsubtypes: forgiveness - compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgivesame as: mercifulness
-
Something for which to be thankful (synset 114498019)
"it was a mercy we got out alive"
-
Alleviation of distress;
Showing great kindness toward the distressed (synset 101229984)"distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"
Found on Word Lists
Other Searches
- Rhyme: Dillfrog, RhymeZone
- Definition: Wiktionary, Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, Merriam-Webster, WordNet, Power Thesaurus
- Imagery: Google, Flickr, Bing