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mercy

 
Noun mercy has 5 senses
  1. clemency, mercifulness, mercy - leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"
    --1 is a kind of lenience, leniency
    --1 has particulars:
     commutation, re-sentencing; amnesty, pardon, free pardon; reprieve, respite
  2. mercifulness, mercy - a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"
    --2 is a kind of humaneness
    --2 has particulars:
     compassion, pity; forgivingness, kindness; lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity
  3. mercifulness, mercy - the feeling that motivates compassion
    --3 is a kind of compassion, compassionateness
    --3 has particulars: forgiveness
  4. mercy - something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive"
    --4 is a kind of
    blessing, boon
  5. mercy - alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"
    --5 is a kind of
    relief, succor, succour, ministration
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