clemency
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
clemency
- The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
- 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.
- 2010, Priyamvada Gopal, The Guardian, 4 May 2010:
- (legal) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
- (now rare) Mildness of weather.
- French: clémence
- German: Milde
- Italian: clemenza
- Portuguese: clemência
- Russian: милосе́рдие
- Spanish: clemencia
- German: Milde
- Russian: мя́гкость
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