Synonyms for clemency
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Noun
1. Leniency — the gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing
leniency, mercy, pardon, kindness, compassion, indulgence, gentleness, tenderness, softness, lenience, lenity, mercifulness, forbearance
Other
mildness, fellow feeling, syngnome, clemence dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
Forms
- Plural
- clemencies → leniencies, mercies, pardons, kindnesses…
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Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- mercy And so God took mercy on her, and gave her a girl.
- kindness Kyoko had the kindness to carry my baggage for me.
- pardon I beg your pardon; I didn't quite catch your name.
- leniency My virtues are called kindness and leniency.
By length
- 5 letters
- mercy2
- 6 letters
- pardon2, lenity
- 8 letters
- kindness2, softness2, leniency3, clemence2, mildness, lenience, syngnome
- 10 letters
- compassion3, indulgence3, tenderness3, gentleness3
- 11 letters
- forbearance3
- 12 letters
- mercifulness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (mercy2 = 2 syllables).