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Clemency vs Pardoning - What's the difference?

clemency | pardoning |

As nouns the difference between clemency and pardoning

is that clemency is the gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing while pardoning is the act by which somebody is pardoned.

As a verb pardoning is

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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

    pardoning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which somebody is pardoned.