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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

;

pl.

Clemencies

(#)

[L.

clementia

, fr.

clemens

mild, calm.]

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

Macaulay.

Syn. – Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy; gentleness; compassion; kindness.

–

Clem′ent-ly

adv.

Noun.

Mildness; softness; as the clemency of the air.

Mildness of temper; gentleness or lenity of disposition; disposition to treat with favor and kindness.

I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words. Acts 24.

Mercy; disposition to treat with lenity, to forgive or to spare, as offenders; tenderness in punishing; opposed to severity, harshness, or rigor.