单词 | mercifully |
释义 | mercifully, adv.|ˈmɜːsɪfʊlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a merciful manner. Also occas. through God's mercy.
a1340Hampole Psalter cxvi. 2 Þe redempcioun of man mercyfully hight is confermyd on vs. c1450Godstow Register 4/13 Late us be neuer to hym vnkynde Mercyfully þat made vs to be men. 1548–9(Mar.) Bk. Com. Prayer, Litany, Mercifully forgeue the synnes of thy people. 1779J. Duché Disc. (1790) I. i. 20 This mortified, penitent, afflicted state is mercifully intended to bring us to a proper sense of our helplessness. 1836Lady Willoughby de Eresby in C. K. Sharpe Corr. (1888) II. 495 Mrs. Villiers, in galloping to cover..was pitched off,..but mercifully escaped with life and limb. 1903A. B. Davidson Old Test. Prophecy xv. 251 The house of God was at last overthrown though its overthrow was mercifully postponed. |

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