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mercifull

mercifull is the obsolete spelling of merciful.

Meaning of merciful

Adjective

merciful (comparative more merciful, superlative most merciful)

  1. Showing mercy.
    • `Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Forms of mercifull

comparativemore mercifull
superlativemost mercifull

Questions about mercifull

What is mercifull the obsolete spelling of?
Mercifull is the obsolete spelling of merciful.

Words near mercifull in the dictionary

  1. mercification
  2. mercified
  3. mercifies
  4. mercifixion
  5. merciful
  6. mercifull
  7. mercifully
  8. mercifulness
  9. mercifulnesses
  10. mercify
  11. mercifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercifull (page history and authors); merciful (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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