clemency
nounEtymology
Definitions
The gentle or kind exercise of power
The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
- For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
- Notwithstanding, that I be not farther tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy clemencie a few words.
- A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties…
A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
Mildness of weather.
- Now of all theſe Things there is ſuch a conſtant Continuance, by reaſon of the Clemency of the Climate, that ſcarce the leaſt Famine, which frequenteth other Countries, hath been felt in England theſe 400 Years.
- It rained still, and blew; but with more clemency, I thought, than it had poured and raged all day.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at clemency. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at clemency. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
5 hops · closes at clemency
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA