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mercyfull

mercyfull 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 mercyfull

comparativemore mercyfull
superlativemost mercyfull

Questions about mercyfull

What is mercyfull the obsolete spelling of?
Mercyfull is the obsolete spelling of merciful.

Words near mercyfull in the dictionary

  1. mercy seats
  2. mercy-killing
  3. mercy-killings
  4. mercyfuck
  5. mercyfucks
  6. mercyfull
  7. mercying
  8. Mercys
  9. merd
  10. merdaughter
  11. merdaughters

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mercyfull (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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