Mercy

Mercy reduces to One, which some gematria writers read as fitting for a quality often described as originating unconditionally rather than being earned in response to something else. Its forward and reverse ordinal values sit close together at 64 and 71. The word comes from the Latin "merces," originally meaning "wages" or "reward," which shifted through Church Latin into a sense of compassionate favor granted regardless of what's actually earned — an etymological reversal, from payment for service to a gift with no payment required.