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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
clement
adjective
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▪ Not a particularly clement Saturday either.
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Clement

Clement \Clem"ent\, a. [L. clemens; -entis; cf. F. cl?ment.] Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.
--Shak. -- Clem"ent*ly, adv.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
clement

mid-15c., "mild," of persons (attested from early 13c. as a surname), from Old French clement, from Latin clementem (nominative clemens) "mild, placid, gentle" (see clemency). Of weather, 1620s. Taken as a name by several early popes and popular in England as a masculine given name from mid-12c., also in fem. form Clemence.

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clement

n. (given name male from=Latin), borne by an early pope and by several saints.

WordNet
clement
  1. adj. (of weather or climate) physically mild; "clement weather" [ant: inclement]

  2. (used of persons or behavior) inclined to show mercy; "a more clement judge reduced the sentence" [ant: inclement]

Wikipedia
Clement

Clement is an English name, a form of the Late Latin name Clemens. Clément is a French form of the same name. Clement or Clément may refer to:

Clément (film)

Clément is a 2001 French drama film directed by Emmanuelle Bercot. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Usage examples of "clement".

Egyptians, then the letters of Clement, Bishop of Rome, others of Peter, and documents such as the Apocryphon of James, the Dialogue of the Savior, the unknown texts recorded in the Egerton Papyrus No.

Pope Clement sent the noble Spanish Cardinal Pedro de Luna, well supplied with gold and magnificent gifts, to urge the legitimacy of the Avignonese papacy on the English.

Mark: Clement explained that a licentious heretical group called the Carpocratians had come upon the secret gospel through deceitful means and that the text was not to be considered accurate.

Marco Antonio Casanova, secretary to Cardinal Pompeo Colonna, who died of the plague in Rome, in the year 1528, under the pontificate of Clement VII.

In the second Epistle of Clement and in the Shepherd the Christological interest of the writer ends in obtaining the assurance, through faith in Christ as the world ruling King and Judge that the community of Christ will receive a glory corresponding to its moral and ascetic works.

CHAPTER 5 Ralph Cometh to Higham-on-the-Way Nought more befell Ralph to tell of till he came to the end of the Downs and saw Higham lying below him overlooked by a white castle on a knoll, and with a river lapping it about and winding on through its fair green meadows even as Clement had told.

But the next even back cometh Clement, and the day after we rode away from Sarras the Holy, and Valerius I saw never again.

If, as is probable, the Ignatian Epistles are independent of the Gospel of John, further, the Supper prayer in the Didache, finally, certain mystic theological phrases in the Epistle of Barnabas, in the second epistle of Clement, and in Hermas, a complex of Theologoumena may be put together, which reaches back to the primitive period of the Church, and may be conceived as the general ground for the theology of John.

Project Gutenberg eBook, History of the Incas, by Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa, Edited by Sir Clements Markham, Translated by Sir Clements Markham This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Colin Meadows had been friendly with Helen, whom he saw daily in the Clements office.

Madam Clement was visited by Fathom, who, after having complained, in the most insinuating manner that she had encouraged his wife to abandon her duty, told her a plausible story of his first acquaintance with Monimia, and his marriage at the Fleet, which, he said, he was ready to prove by the evidence of the clergyman who joined them, and that of Mrs.

No physical reactions were possible in this nonphysical plane, but Lenardo perceived from Clement something distinctly like a long, sad sigh.

My reasons for this opinion are as follows: In the year of which I am speaking, the third of the Pontificate of Clement XIV.

Clement, the Skaw fishermen have given an exquisite model of a ship to the church.

Clements shook hands with Tallis and gave him their drink preferences.