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clemency
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clemency \Clem"en*cy\, n.; pl. Clemencies. [L. clementia, fr. clemens mild, calm.]
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Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects.
--Stowe.They had applied for the royal clemency.
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Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
Syn: Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy; gentleness; compassion; kindness.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "mildness or gentleness shown in exercise of authority," from Latin clementia "calmness, gentleness," from clemens "calm, mild," related to clinare "to lean" (see lean (v.)) + participial suffix -menos (also in alumnus). For sense evolution, compare inclined in secondary meaning "disposed favorably." Earlier in same sense was clemence (late 15c.).\n
\nMeaning "mildness of weather or climate" is 1660s (a sense also in Latin); clement (adj.) is older in both senses, late 15c. and 1620s respectively, but now is used only in negation and only of the weather.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing. 2 (context now rare English) mildness of weather.
WordNet
n. good weather with comfortable temperatures [syn: mildness]
leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court" [syn: mercifulness, mercy]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "clemency".
Finally they were to be expelled from the city to take their chances on the clemency of the Mahdi and his Ansar across the river.
A people accustomed to applaud the clemency of the conqueror, if the usual punishments of death, exile, and confiscation, were inflicted with any degree of temper and equity, beheld, with the most pleasing astonishment, a civil war, the flames of which were extinguished in the field of battle.
The exquisite avarice and cruelty of Domitian appear to have deprived the unfortunate of this last consolation, and it was still denied even by the clemency of the Antonines.
Our chances for clemency are going to be a whole lot better if the Fates have a chance to see what Eris was doing in the Fate Core before they find us.
A similar boon to the partially conquered Boers led to very different results, and the prolongation of the war is largely due to this act of clemency.
Many people are working for this to happen, and many more can help by writing to their congresspersons and senators, asking them to support executive clemency.
Greek dress and informing the ethnarchs in council that Caesar was most famous for his clemency.
He bravely confesses that he had fought for king and country, and pleads for clemency for the prisoners.
Pompey had done himself no good in their eyes by speaking openly of proscriptions Italia-wide, whereas Caesar had behaved with clemency and great affection for country people.
This letter he bears at my request, and in exchange for its swift delivery, I have promised clemency for him and all his men.
Marco and Marie-Celeste knelt at his feet, pleading clemency for their part in the conspiracy, claiming they had been deceived by Benedicte and his treacherous wife.
At the same time, Holmes pushed up on his toes to keep an eye on the carriage path behind Fields so that he might be the first to see the clemency papers arrive or George Parkman, the supposed murder victim, stroll into view.
Here the clemency spoken of is nothing more than an expression of the policy of Anne of Austria.
A last minute, live, on-camera appeal for clemency for the children, direct to the Empress.
Did you imagine that haply, whilst we sent to Paris for your witnesses, the King might grow weary of justice, and in some fit of clemency announce a general pardon?