WordNet
adv. in a compassionate manner; "he dealt with the thief mercifully" [syn: mercifully, with mercy]
Usage examples of "showing mercy".
The one they were carrying was passed across gently, the professionals showing mercy and solicitude to the body which the living world had forsaken.
The soldiers of Lord Xacatecas were thorough, efficient, and in no mind for showing mercy.
There was a time for being ruthless and a time for showing mercy, and maybe this Scotsman would be a useful pawn if there was a need to hold a hostage.
It had been much the same with Compass Rose: there must be a special kind of war-memory - showing mercy in fading quickly, drowning for ever under the weight of sorrow.
How the Centaur and the Swiftsure were the two English ships that brought down the L'Orient, how courageously ruthless you were to attack a vessel so much larger, yet how you lowered your own boats to help pluck the wounded Frenchmen from the water, showing mercy even in your victory.
Very likely, the Regis's spies would inform her of such a matter as the Regent's showing mercy-or if not, his own agents could see to it that she heard.