1 used to show that you feel sb/sth is lucky because a situation could have been much worse:
Deaths from the disease are mercifully rare. * Mercifully, everyone arrived on time.
2 in a merciful way:
He was treated mercifully.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for mercifully is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is mercifully a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, mercifully is tagged as adverb.
Does mercifully appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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