<Mercy, clemency, lenity, leniency, lenience, forbearance>.

It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmost lenience.

He acknowledged, though with a certain lenience of judgment, the absurdity of being where he was.

Lenity N. lenity, lenience, leniency; moderation &c 174; tolerance, toleration; mildness, gentleness; favor, indulgence, indulgency^; clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter; compassion &c 914.

There was no love in this little act of giving her his cloak; 'twas but the outcome of that chivalry in gentlemen which doth exact lenience even to an enemy.

" [Governmental lenience.

Or, possibly, if we incline to lenience, we may say that she was sorry for the Armenians, but could not then risk a disagreement with their murderers who were her allies, whereas now, feeling herself more completely dominant over the Turks than she then did, she could risk being peremptory, especially since there was that saving clause about military requirements.

An entire and sudden lenience toward the gentle art of swearing was born in her.

Our lenience toward the defects of princes, the great, and the rich, and our over-praise for their excellent qualities are, from the moral standpoint, an injustice, but one which has this advantage, that it encourages ambition and industry, and maintains social distinctions intact, which without loyalty and respect toward superiors would be broken down.

Compassion, forbearance, lenience, mercy.