Clemency vs Sympathy - What's the difference?
clemency | sympathy |
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.
A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.
The ability to share the feelings of another.
A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
* 1997 , Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault'', page 67, ''The Renaissance Episteme (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)
Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.
As nouns the difference between clemency and sympathy
is that clemency is the gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing while sympathy is a feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion.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.
sympathy
English
(wikipedia sympathy)Noun
(sympathies)- 'Sympathy' likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.