0 someone who is merciful is willing to be kind to and forgive people who are in their power -- 寬大的;慈悲的,仁慈的
1 used to say that you are grateful for an event or situation because it stops something unpleasant -- 令人解脫的;使人鬆一口氣的
Not 'for the chamber full of diamonds ' would he gamble his enterprise against a single, merciful warning.
The mere fact that there have been no accidents due to interference, whilst it is, of course, a merciful matter, is no test at all.
Why are we more merciful to our four-footed friends than we are to humans?
In nearly all other countries that principle, that merciful and just principle, was accepted.
Obviously it must be merciful, it must be really efficient, it must be reasonably cheap and, most of all, it must be portable.
Let me give just one example by way of a question: is public policy merciful to widows and orphans?
We all hope that men are better, wiser, more merciful than they were 10,000 years ago.
I do not think women are more merciful than men.