Clemency vs Lenien - What's the difference?
clemency | lenien |
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.
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.