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Toleration vs Lenity - What's the difference?

toleration | lenity |

As nouns the difference between toleration and lenity

is that toleration is endurance of evil, suffering etc while lenity is leniency.

toleration

English

Noun

  • (obsolete) Endurance of evil, suffering etc.
  • The allowance of something not explicitly approved; tolerance, forbearance.
  • Specifically, the allowance by a government (or other ruling power) of the exercise of religion beyond the state established faith.
  • * 2012 , Faramerz Dabhoiwala, The Origins of Sex , Penguin 2013, p. 86:
    • Above all, the establishment of toleration helped to weaken the presumption that plurality in matters of faith inevitably caused social disorder.

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    lenity

    English

    Noun

    (lenities)
  • leniency
  • mercy
  • forgiveness

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