Lenient
['liːnɪənt] or ['linɪənt]
Definition
(adj.) characterized by tolerance and mercy .
(adj.) not strict; 'an easy teacher'; 'easy standards'; 'lenient rules'; 'an easy penalty' .
Typed by Carolyn--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
(a.) Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
(n.) A lenitive; an emollient.
Checker: Selma
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Softening, assuasive, soothing, mitigating, mitigative, lenitive.[2]. Mild, gentle, clement, merciful, tender, forbearing, long-suffering, not rigorous, not severe.
Editor: Miriam
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See MILD_and_KIND]
Inputed by Clinton
Definition
adj. softening: mild: merciful.—n. (med.) that which softens: an emollient.—ns. Lē′nience Lē′niency.—adv. Lē′niently.—v.t. Lē′nify (rare) to assuage.—adj. Len′itive mitigating: laxative.—n. any palliative: (med.) an application for easing pain: a mild purgative.—n. Len′ity mildness: clemency.
Typist: Trevor
Examples
- If I cannot persuade you to take a lenient view of the matter, Lord St. Simon, I have brought an advocate here who may be more successful. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He asked his partner to explain the invention to him; 'having a lenient consideration,' he stipulated, 'for my being no workman, Doyce. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Polly and I were clinging to that hypothesis as the most lenient way of accounting for your eccentricity. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And you, being a good man, can pass it as such, and forgive and pity the dreamer, and be lenient and encouraging when he wakes? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I would ask you, dearest, to be very generous with him always, and very lenient on his faults when he is not by. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- As a result he soon gained the farmers’ confidence, and his name became identified with square, and even with lenient, dealing with all classes of purchasers. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Now, said Holmes, when the rejoicing lackey had disappeared, having secured the future, we can afford to be more lenient with the past. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
Typist: Trevor