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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



... time that a suitable provision should be made to meet what seemed likely to be a new and base abuse of Royal clemency. ...
— Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen V.1. • Sarah Tytler
... rude and offensive to Mary that it took all her grace to keep her temper and her ground. As she would not leave the house the chief said he would, and walked out, remarking that he was going to his farm on business. Swallowing her pride she followed him and begged him humbly as an act of clemency to free the young man. He turned, elated at her suppliant attitude, laughed loudly, and said that no violence would be used until all his demands ...
— Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary • W. P. Livingstone
... the column, thus shielded, enters the city without resistance, ye will both have earned the Dukedom, and the question who shall have it may be decided by single combat between yourselves. But should the people, rather than submit to our clemency, impiously slay their elected magistrates, it will be apparent that the methods of our martial friend are the only ones corresponding to the exigency of the case. Is ...
— The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales • Richard Garnett
... act with so much clemency as to encourage another outbreak on the one hand, nor with so much severity as to be real cruelty on the other, I caused a careful examination of the records of trials to be made, in view of first ordering the execution ...
— The Papers And Writings Of Abraham Lincoln, Complete - Constitutional Edition • Abraham Lincoln
... but he told me my case hadn't a leg to stand on, and that, if I were foolish enough to bring it into court, I should certainly be convicted of embezzlement, and sent to penal servitude; that it was only the clemency of my chief's attitude that saved me, and that he advised me to go abroad while I could. So I left England in a hurry, a disgraced man, disowned by his family and his friends. I changed my name to Carson, ...
— The Jolliest School of All • Angela Brazil


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