In those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Grounds of these expectations: his mercifulness, his faithfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers] Reference

September 28, 2008 at 1:29 pm mercifulness, dis LOLcat haz it! nawt bery common u noes….    From Wordnik.com.  [wen i conquar werld - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference

Poverty of spirit, humility, meekness, mercifulness, and peaceableness are indeed the marks of Christ's teaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference

The mass of examples of Lincoln's leniency, mercifulness, and lack of rigor, lead one to believe he could not be inexorable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference

He reads Machiavelli, Ignatius of Loyola, Marx and Hegel; he is cold and unmerciful to mankind, out of a kind of mathematical mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autumn] Reference

God's mercilessness begins when our mercifulness ends.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)] Reference

Charitable mercifulness; better than sentimental ointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

They regarded humility and mercifulness as the greatest virtues.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)] Reference

As Ramadan is a month of mercifulness, the whole year can also be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yemen RSS News Feed - Yemen Times] Reference

I am remote, cause me to approach the threshold of Thy mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá] Reference

Thus they surpassed their neighbors in mercifulness as well as valor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776] Reference

It is ever a blunder to be unforgiving, and mercifulness is always expedient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

He will rule the world by mercifulness when we forgive each other, but not before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)] Reference

And not their mercifulness only, but all their good impulses overpower their logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

But there was no compassion, no mercifulness in their faces as they looked down at her.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Place to Place] Reference

And so with men, with or without their will, their mercifulness overpowers their logic.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Compromise] Reference

They are supplicating the kingdom of Thy mercifulness and invoking the realm of Thy singleness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bahá’í Prayers: A Selection of Prayers Revealed by Bahá’u’lláh, the Báb, and ‘Abdu’l-Bahá] Reference

In this also I saw His great mercifulness in that He suffers such a sinner as I am still to live.    From Wordnik.com.  [Santa Teresa an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings] Reference

Protestantism; for it could not be to show the greater beautifulness and mercifulness of Catholicism.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huguenots in France] Reference

The brutality with which he spoke was so unnatural that it betrayed the mercifulness of his intention.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Explorer] Reference

The animal is excused; but in man there is reason, the faculty of justice, the faculty of mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Foundations of World Unity] Reference

The mercifulness of this punishment is seen in its power in thus effectively stopping the tendency to crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science] Reference

But, however that may be, we may note that common-sense and practical sagacity should guide our mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII] Reference

That mercifulness wipes out and washes away sins, as salves and remedies to heal sores and grievous diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia Pro Vita Sua] Reference

The obvious contrast is too much for their pride; mercifulness of disposition does not mitigate its pungency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13] Reference

And mercifulness from Ourself, and purity; and pious was he, and duteous to his parents; and not proud, rebellious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference

Into the ideal of man, as conceived by our Muslim brothers, there must therefore enter the feature of mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reconciliation of Races and Religions] Reference

Christendom in these few later generations toward mercifulness -- a wide and general relaxing of the grip of the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete] Reference

He philosophized the mercifulness of the fact, and of the ignorance of most of us, when mortally sick or fatally wounded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship] Reference

He apologizes very often for having talked and continuing to do so, but throws himself upon what he calls my mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Three] Reference

I swear that, should they once take those arms, that clemency and mercifulness of yours will be changed into wo and wailing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Roman Traitor (Vol. 2 of 2)] Reference

That mercifulness wipes out and washes away infirmity and weakness as salves and remedies to heal sores and grievous diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apologia pro Vita Sua] Reference

Some birds sang melodies and harmonies, and some nightingales began to warble on the branches of the rose-tree of mercifulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas] Reference

But Gothic interest in the humanity of our Lord and the mercifulness of our Lady generated an entirely new approach to Maria Lactans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference