Leniency
['liːnɪənsɪ] or ['linjənsi]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Clemency, mildness, lenity, mercy, tenderness, gentleness, forbearance.
Editor: Patrick
Examples
- This is a leniency, Sir, which I hope you will remember. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Yet he had a reputation for kindness and charity on the country-side, and was noted for the leniency of his sentences from the bench. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- You must expect no leniency here. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Glenn