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clement

adj
/ˈklɛmənt/

Etymology

From Late Latin Clēmens (genitive Clēmentis), name of early saints and popes, from clēmens (“merciful”). Doublet of Clemens and San Clemente.

  1. derived from Clēmens

Definitions

  1. Lenient or merciful

    Lenient or merciful; charitable.

    • I know you are more clement than vilde^([sic – meaning vile]) men, / Who of their broken Debtors take a third, / A ſixt, a tenth, letting them thriue againe / On their abatement; […]
    • Your clement sentence they would account pusillanimous.

  2. Mild (said of weather and similar circumstances).

    • The weather is clement, though there was a downpour yesterday and I was obliged to take precautions.
    • The earth was still dry and the air was perfectly clement.

  3. A male given name from Latin, borne by an early pope and by several saints.

    • And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A surname.

    2. A placename

      A placename:

The neighborhood

Derived

clemently

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA