noun: the act of forgiving someone or not treating them severely, especially someone who you have the authority to punish
noun: alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed ("Distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy")
noun: something for which to be thankful ("It was a mercy we got out alive")
noun: a disposition to be kind and forgiving
noun: the feeling that motivates compassion
noun: leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice ("He threw himself on the mercy of the court")
Cayce
"It is mercy and grace and love you seek, and would show in your experience one to another." [Cayce 262-109]
Ramsay
as the savage state. The savage is the sunken state of man, consequent on falling away from God by distrust and disobedience, and the loss of paradisial converse with Him. We may presume that music in the beginning, when the first human pair sang out with unbroken voices the joy of their hearts, was in the scale to which mankind, risen and restored by God's mercy, have returned. Our last days are thus become like the first again; and the lost dominion of Nature has returned, in the Incarnate One, into the hands of mankind. [Scientific Basis and Build of Music, page 79]
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