Crossword clues for leniency
leniency
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lenience \Le"ni*ence\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*ens or l[=e]n"yens; 106), Leniency \Le"ni*en*cy\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*en*s[y^] or l[=e]n"yen*s[y^]), n. The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1780, from lenient + -cy.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case. 2 An act of being lenient.
WordNet
n. mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant [syn: lenience, mildness, lenity]
a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience]
lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers [syn: lenience]
Usage examples of "leniency".
These boons were offset, however, by a new delegation summoning Becket and the king again to arbitrament of their grievances, and setting Ascension Day as the term of papal leniency.
Qax to move back into time, far beyond Bolder, and to rectify their earlier leniency.
With respect, eparch, I would not like our leniency to be misconstrued as vacillation or weakness.
This Leniency, therefore, was, as it were, the very essence and quintessence of the Permanence and Stability of the plan of Creation, and part of the Very Nature of the Deity.
He determined to plead guilty to murder at his trial, and then to make a declaration that he had entrapped Lady Molly into a marriage, knowing at the time that a warrant was out for his arrest, and hoping, by his connection with the Earl of Flintshire, to obtain a certain amount of leniency.
Linda Ziegler made her closing argument, Dale followed with a passionate plea for leniency in his summation and argument, thenas California law allowedZiegler got the final word, presenting a summation that reminded the jurors that Cletus Calhoun was dead, and regardless of everything else, someone had to answer for that crime.
Unfortunately, however, the one thing which the British could not offer was the one thing which the Boers would insist upon having, and the leniency of the proposals in all other directions may have suggested weakness to their minds.
At such times, the normal hierarchy on Stratos was known to reverse, and mighty matrons from great holds went pleading leniency from lowly men.
It is not that he regrets the policies he has advocated from the beginning and to which he has adhered despite the abuses of those who regard his leniency toward the vanquished as a sign of weakness and indecision.
Could it be that Nabur or perhaps Belam wanted to send him some secret reassurance of leniency?
What Bran Loort and his fellows had done exceeded the normal rights of custom, the leniencies and tacit permissions of a peasant community.
The Secretary promised leniency so long as he arrived before the commencement of the second plenary session, set for ten a.