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Clemency   /klˈɛmənsi/   Listen
noun
Clemency  n.  (pl. clemencies)  
1.
Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. "Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects." "They had applied for the royal clemency."
2.
Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
Synonyms: Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy; gentleness; compassion; kindness.





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"Clemency" Quotes from Famous Books



... were at a loss how to take this strange and unexpected announcement. True, they hated the Radicals, but they also hated impositions and detention, and the probability is that, if left to themselves, they would quietly have availed themselves of Mr Cheeseman's clemency. ...
— The Willoughby Captains • Talbot Baines Reed
... this treachery, and procured a decree that Jugur'tha should be summoned in person before them, to give an account of all such as had accepted bribes. 9. Jugur'tha made no difficulty of throwing himself upon the clemency of Rome; but not giving the people satisfaction, he had orders to depart the city.[1] 10. In the meantime, Alba'nus, the consul, was sent with an army to follow him, who giving up the direction of it to Au'lus, his brother; a person who was every way unqualified for the command, ...
— Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome • Oliver Goldsmith
... shall wait up till Martha comes back from the train on Tuesday night, and hear." Dorothy was of course full of gratitude and thanks; but yet she felt almost disappointed by the result of her aunt's clemency on the matter. She had desired to take her brother's part, and it had seemed to her as though she had done so in a very lukewarm manner. She had listened to an immense number of accusations against him, and had been unable to reply to them because ...
— He Knew He Was Right • Anthony Trollope
... lending their support to a Government which represents this current, and yet Admiral Krantz and M. Casimir Perier have recorded their deliberate conviction that the men who clamoured for an unconditional, indiscriminate amnesty for the Communards were simply abusing the name of clemency for ...
— France and the Republic - A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces - During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 • William Henry Hurlbert
... to hold any thing by courtesy, and therefore never usurps what a lawful claimant may take away. He that encroaches on another's dignity puts himself in his power; he is either repelled with helpless indignity, or endured by clemency and condescension[218].' ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell


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