Clemency vs Forbearance - What's the difference?
clemency | forbearance | Synonyms |
The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
* 1601 , William Shakespeare, Hamlet :
* 2010 , Priyamvada Gopal, The Guardian , 4 May 2010:
Mildness of weather.
Patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.
A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.
Clemency is a synonym of forbearance.
As nouns the difference between clemency and forbearance
is that clemency is the gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing while forbearance is patient self-control; restraint and tolerance under provocation.clemency
English
Noun
- For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie : / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
- A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
