Heart and Mercy

Heart

Heart noun - The capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune.

Usage example: those who refuse to contribute to the fund for the famine victims must have no heart

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Mercy and heart are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Mercy" instead a noun "Heart".

Nearby Words: hearty, heartless, hearten, heartily, hear

Mercy noun - The capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune.

Usage example: a woman of such mercy that she's been known to cry over dead rodents

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Heart and mercy are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Heart" instead a noun "Mercy".

Nearby Words: merciful, mercifully, mercer

human	human heart	human mercy
good	good heart	good mercy
pure	pure heart	pure mercy
complete	complete heart	complete mercy
Other adjectives: small, actual, real, great, little, last.

The villain gives a silent appeal for mercy, but Bond pushes his knife into the man's heart anyway.

Source: Villains Want Mercy
Sandor Clegane comes to mind as a frequent dispenser of such mercy, and helpfully teaches little Arya where the heart is so that she can do it, too.

Source: Mercy Kill
While he does ensure that Souther eventually dies soon enough, the fact that he actually does show mercy to Souther is the dagger through the heart of Souther, who himself had sworn off all kinds of mercy, making it a heavy blow onto his pride.

Source: Cruel Mercy

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