Clemency
['klemənsɪ] or ['klɛmənsi]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; 'he threw himself on the mercy of the court'.
杰弗里整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
(n.) Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
乔纳森手打
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Lenity, mercy, gentleness, leniency, tenderness, kindness, compassion, fellow-feeling, long-suffering.[2]. Mildness, softness.
阿德拉錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
[See MERCY]
錄入:内丽
例句/造句/用法:
- Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other, and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- He threw himself on Monseigneur for clemency. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But, morning once more brightened my view, and I extended my clemency to Biddy, and we dropped the subject. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- It rained still, and blew; but with more clemency, I thought, than it had poured and raged all day. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Your clemency, Monseigneur! 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- We do not say Ozer; we say Other: the letters are “T” and “H;” You say Tay and Aish, You Know; (still with clemency). 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- For the real injury he showed himself full of clemency; under the real provocation, patient as a saint. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She supposed she must say more before she were entitled to his clemency; but it was a hard case to be obliged still to lower herself in his opinion. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- He despises me, I thought; but he shall learn that I despise him, and hold in equal contempt his punishments and his clemency. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
手打:露西娅