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Clemency vs Forgiveness - What's the difference?

clemency | forgiveness | Related terms |

Clemency is a related term of forgiveness.


As nouns the difference between clemency and forgiveness

is that clemency is the gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing while forgiveness is the action of forgiving.

clemency

English

Noun

  • The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
  • * 1601 , William Shakespeare, Hamlet :
    • For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie : / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
  • * 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.
  • Mildness of weather.

    • Related terms

    * clement

    forgiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The action of forgiving.
    • The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -
  • Readiness to forgive.

    • Synonyms

    * (action of forgiving) remission * (readiness to forgive) mercy

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