Term Gallery logo

Meanings of more merciful in English

We have no meanings for "more merciful" in our records yet.
Usage of more merciful in English
1
You look more merciful and more patient than young men in general.
The Guilty River
2
This in answer to a questioning look from the more merciful Perez.
The Black Wolf's Breed / A Story of France in the Old World and ...
3
If I did I would be more merciful than God, believe me.
The Godfather
4
Yet a crocodile would be far more merciful than those black devils.
Witch-Doctors
5
It was more merciful than the slow dying of No Man's Land.
Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
6
But the good... is, I doubt not, more merciful than his wicked..
The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great
7
You are being far more merciful to her than she deserves.
Bones of the Dragon
8
Your eyes are more merciful than the truth and the Hun.
A Minstrel in France
9
He saw it now, and was more merciful in judging her.
The Sea-Hawk
10
People will be more merciful, both to her and the children.
Three Dramas
11
He has been more merciful to the cattle, for they have all died.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
12
God was more merciful to him than he had been to his victims.
The Great Salt Lake Trail
13
So God became more merciful to them, and was ready to assist them.
Antiquities of the Jews
14
Saya Chone's pony was more merciful than the flinty-hearted wretch who bestrode it.
Jack Haydon's Quest
15
But frost and famine are, at least, more merciful than slavery and darkness.
Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 11
16
God has been more merciful to you than your imprudence perhaps deserved, Marie.
Cinq Mars — Volume 6
This collocation consists of:
More merciful through the time
More merciful across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common