Mercifully
['mɝsɪfəli]
Definition
(adv.) in a compassionate manner; 'he dealt with the thief mercifully'.
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Examples
- He must treat you mercifully for his own sake, if he is afraid of you and your friends. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mercifully grant that we may grow aged together. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I think that we may judge Lord St. Simon very mercifully and thank our stars that we are never likely to find ourselves in the same position. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Dance us mercifully off our miserable little stage! Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Mercifully unconscious of what she had done, Jo sat with her nose in the air, and a revolutionary aspect which was anything but inviting. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You have kept Laura, mercifully kept her, in ignorance of her husband's death---- Oh, Walter, surely it must be long yet before we tell her of it? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- And if he treats you mercifully, and if I can say it was my doing----' I listened eagerly for more, but she stopped at those words. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
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