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kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it<always show your enemies mercy, because it makes you a better person>Synonymscharity, clemency, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, quarterRelated Wordshumanitarianism, philanthropy; empathy, pity, sympathy, understanding; commiseration, favor, grace; benevolence, care, compassion, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, kindliness, kindness, meekness, mildness, niceness, softness, tenderness; altruism, generosity, magnanimity, nobility; affection, devotion, love, worshipNear Antonymsreprisal, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance; venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol; brutality, cruelty, savagery, violence; castigation, chastisement, punishment, scolding; abhorrence, abomination, execration, hate, hatred, loathing; cattiness, malevolence, malice, malignity, meanness, spite, spitefulness, spleen; animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment; bile, jaundice, rancor; hatefulness, invidiousness; coarseness, grimness, hardness, harshness, roughness
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an act of kind assistance<did a mercy for the stranded motorist and was richly rewarded>— see favor 1
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the capacity for feeling for anotherʼs unhappiness or misfortune<a woman of such mercy that sheʼs been known to cry over dead rodents>— see heart 1
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