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Leniency vs Indulgency - What's the difference?

leniency | indulgency |

As nouns the difference between leniency and indulgency

is that leniency is the quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case while indulgency is indulgence.

leniency

English

Noun

  • The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.
    • The convicted felon asked for leniency , but because the crime was so heinous the judge refused and gave the maximum sentence.
  • An act of being lenient.
    • Derived terms
    * leniency application * leniency applicant * leniency policy * Leniency Notice * Leniency Program

    indulgency

    English

    Noun

  • (dated) indulgence
  • *{{quote-book, year=1897, author=Ernest Renan, title=Recollections of My Youth, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=My amiability, which is in many cases the result of indifference; my indulgency , which is sincere enough, and is due to the fact that I see clearly how unjust men are to one another; my conscientious habits, which afford me real pleasure, and my infinite capacity for enduring ennui, attributable perhaps to my having been so well inoculated by ennui during my youth that it has never taken since, are all to be explained by the circle in which I lived, and the profound impressions which I received. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Murat Halstead, title=The Story of the Philippines and Our New Possessions,, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The poor Tagalo carried with him a large collection of little books written by you, which were given him by his Priest, who told him they represented so much indulgency for his next life. }}