Clemency vs Goodness - What's the difference?
clemency | goodness | Related terms |
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.
(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being good.
(countable) The good, nutritional, healthy part or content of something.
(uncountable, euphemistic) God.
(Christianity) The moral qualities which constitute Christian excellence; moral virtue.
* 1611 , :
Clemency is a related term of goodness.
As nouns the difference between clemency and goodness
is that clemency is the gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing while goodness is (uncountable) the state or characteristic of being good.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.
goodness
English
(wikipedia goodness)Noun
- Thank goodness that the war is over!
- The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness , faith.