MERCY
Scrabble letter values: M3E1R1C3Y4 = 12
Definition
- noun leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice. — synonyms: clemency, mercifulness
- noun a disposition to be kind and forgiving. — synonyms: mercifulness
- noun the feeling that motivates compassion. — synonyms: mercifulness
- noun something for which to be thankful.
- noun alleviation of distress.
Examples
- “he threw himself on the mercy of the court”
- “in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband”
- “it was a mercy we got out alive”