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Mercy Authority Shows Choose Harm Power Forgive Punish

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If someone in authority shows m____, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish .If someone in authority shows mercy, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish .
Neither side took prisoners or showed any mercy.
They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter.
May God have mercy on your soul.
word mercy
full-definition
noun
If someone in authority shows mercy, they choose not to harm someone they have power over, or they forgive someone they have the right to punish .
Neither side took prisoners or showed any mercy.
They cried for mercy but their pleas were met with abuse and laughter.
May God have mercy on your soul.
If you refer to an event or situation as a mercy, you mean that it makes you feel happy or relieved, usually because it stops something unpleasant happening .
It really was a mercy that he'd died so rapidly at the end.
The two cars finished up in a run-off area, clear of the circuit, and that was a mercy.
adjective
Mercy is used to describe a special journey to help someone in great need, such as people who are sick or made homeless by war.
She vanished nine months ago while on a mercy mission to West Africa.
It's the first so-called mercy flight for a fortnight as the Americans have been waiting for enough people to fill a 747 jet.
inflections mercies
cefr-level C1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:c1

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