Crossword clues for lenity
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lenity \Len"i*ty\ (-t[y^]), n. [L. lenitas, fr. lenis soft, mild: cf. OF. lenit['e]. See Lenient.] The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.
His exceeding lenity disposes us to be somewhat too
severe.
--Macaulay.
Syn: Gentleness; kindness; tenderness; softness; humanity; clemency; mercy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"softness," early 15c., from Middle French lénité or directly from Latin lenitatem (nominative lenitas), from lenis "soft, mild" (see lenient).
Wiktionary
n. 1 leniency 2 mercy 3 forgiveness
WordNet
Usage examples of "lenity".
Your indulgence, your lenity shall take place of every hardship, and leave me nothing but filial affection!
Colborne, as exceptions to the class of cases fit to be included in an amnesty, there must probably among the prisoners be some flagrant and prominent cases of delinquency, which it would not be just or advisable to comprehend in the general lenity.
Her life was forfeited to revenge, and even to justice: but the patriarch obtained and pledged an oath for her safety: a monastery was allotted for her prison, and the widow of Maurice accepted and abused the lenity of his assassin.
Michael were to be hanged with him: an ungrateful monster, after I had rescued him from the fangs of civil justice, to reward my lenity by not leaving a bone unbruised among the holy brotherhood of Rubygill.
But do not imagine that with all this lenity I have for a moment given up my plan of her marriage.
Jacopo, more mindful of the danger he had incurred than of the lenity exercised toward him, on his arrival in Florence secretly instigated the citizens to hostilities.
I lament the fatal Necessity to which you have now reduced me, by withdrawing yourselvesfrom the Mercy of the Crown, and the Laws ofyour Country, to require You are assembled as Regulators, to lay down your Arms, Surrender up the outlawed Ringleaders, and Submit yourselves to the Laws ofyour Country, and then rest on the lenity and Mercy of Government.