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Webster 1913 Edition
Clemency
Clem′en-cy
,Noun.
pl.
Clemencies
(#)
. [L.
clementia
, fr. clemens
mild, calm.] 1.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Clemency
CLEMENCY
,Noun.
1.
Mildness; softness; as the clemency of the air.2.
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.
3.
Mercy; disposition to treat with lenity, to forgive or to spare, as offenders; tenderness in punishing; opposed to severity, harshness, or rigor.Definition 2024
clemency
clemency
English
Noun
clemency (countable and uncountable, plural clemencies)
- The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet:
- For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
- 2010, Priyamvada Gopal, The Guardian, 4 May 2010:
- A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet:
- (now rare) Mildness of weather.
Related terms
Translations
leniency, mercy
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mildness of weather