Pitying vs Lenient - What's the difference?
pitying | lenient | Related terms |
The act of one who pities.
* 1849 , Robert Leighton (Archbishop of Glasgow), A practical commentary upon the first Epistle of St. Peter (page 47)
Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
As nouns the difference between pitying and lenient
is that pitying is the act of one who pities while lenient is a lenitive; an emollient.As a verb pitying
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective lenient is
lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.pitying
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- Oh! the unspeakable privilege to have Him for our Father, who is the Father of mercies and compassions, and those not barren, fruitless pityings , for He is withal the God of all consolations.
lenient
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The standard is fairly lenient , so use your discretion.
- But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.
