Contrarywise, the mercifull and continent captayne, by subduinge hys affections recouereth immortall fame, which this History of kinge Alexander full well declareth.
Thus not hauing any other thing to write at this present, I commend you to the mercifulltuition of the almighty.
In the name of the pitifull and the mercifull God, &c.
Good my Lord be good to mee, your Honor is accounted a mercifull man: good my Lord Esc.
A heauie Summons lyes like Lead vpon me, And yet I would not sleepe: Mercifull Powers, restraine in me the cursed thoughts That Nature giues way to in repose.
Be mercifull great Duke to men of Mould: abate thy Rage, abate thy manly Rage; abate thy Rage, great Duke.
You are a mercifull Generall: Our Generall bids you answer to what I shall aske you out of a Note Par.
No, yet I will be farre moremercifull Then thou wert to me; thou didst steale into me, And never gavest me warning: so much time As I give thee now, had prevented thee For ever.
No, yet I will be far more mercifull than thou wert to me; thou didst steal into me and never gav'st me warning: so much time as I give thee now, had prevented thee for ever.
Me thinks now as I stand, the Captain shews To be a very mercifull young man.
After our prayers made to Heaven to help us, Or to be mercifull unto our souls; So near we were.
To whom I kneele be mercifull unto me, Looke on my harmelesse youth Angels of pitty, And from my bleeding heart wipe off my sorrowes, The power, the pride, the malice and injustice Of cruell men are bent against mine innocence.
King of his mercifull clemencie, pardoned him of that offense, although he died shortly after, more through feare than force or sicknesse, as some haue written.
Sidenote: The kings mercifull dealing with the French prisoners.
The king like a mercifull prince granted to them their asking, with which answer they ioifullie returned.
Receiue, O my God, and mercifull father, receiue my soule betwene thy blessed handes, which thou hast redemed by the bloudshedding of thy sonne Iesus, vpon the Tree of the Crosse!
And like as God had not forgotten his sister, euen so he shewed his mercifull remembraunce of him.
And therfore I hasted rather to fle to Tharsis: for I knew well ynough that thou wast a mercifull god/ ful of cōpassion/ long yer thou be angre and of great mercie and repentest when thou art come to take punishment.
They [that] obserue vayne vanities/ haue forsakē him that was mercifull vn to them.
Save me, therefore, most mercifull Prince, that I may owe your Majesty my life itt sealf; then which ther cannot be a greter dett.
Who hath nomercifull milde mistres, I will maintaine, hath no wittie but a clownish dull flegmatike puppie to his mistres.
God be mercifull to our pandor (and that were for God to worke a miracle) he was seene in all the seuen liberall deadly sciences, not a sinne but he was as absolute in as sathan himselfe.
Then being forsaken and left in this distresse referring my self to the mercifull prouidence of God, I shaped my course for England, and vnhoped for of any, God alone releeuing me, I arriued at Dartmouth.
God be mercifull to the speikar; for we feir that he shall have experience that the buylding of his awin house (the house of God being despisit) sall not be so prosperouse, and of sick firmitie, as we desyre it were.
And yf thare be offence towardis God, he is mercifull to remitt our offences; for "He will not the death of a synnar.
To satisfie for syne lyes not in manis power, but the remissioun thairof cumis by unfeaned reapentance, and by faith apprehending God the Father mercifull in Christ Jesus, his sone.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mercifull" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
