Lenity is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LENITY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the quality of being lenient, also LENIENCY, LENIENCE
• the quality of being kind or gentle
• mercy or clemency
• The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor.
• mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant

Words related to LENITY

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How to use LENITY in a sentence

• Augustine thought proper, in the commencement of his mission, to assume the appearance of the greatest lenity.
• He treated him with great lenity, so much so as to displease Cicero, who remonstrated with him strongly on his design of setting him at liberty.
• But Shaftesbury pays the lenity with which Monmouth is dismissed.
• Slaves used with much more lenity in Algiers and in Turkey than in our colonies, 70.
• This done, we would show him lenity in proportion as we found him capable of reform.
• They were surprised at the unprecedented lenity of the conqueror, and the treaty of peace and subjection was signed in January, 1711.
• With such, a threat of confiscation will be found of more avail than all the lenity in the world.
• Cardinal Ruffo, too, seems to have entertained what they considered as erroneous ideas of lenity.
• Through an extreme lenity it is on some occasions tyrannical.
• And this was probably the reason of the extreme lenity of the Saxon laws.
• He had done his utmost to win over the Saxons by lenity and kindness, but this course now seemed to him useless, if not worse than useless.
• What reply did Aurelius make to these who blamed him for his lenity to the friends of Cassius? 10.
• These were tried, sentenced, and executed by order of the king, who was determined to show no lenity to the rebels.
• Many of the cavaliers blamed extremely that lenity towards him, which was so honorable in the king, and so advantageous to posterity.
• The common people of Edinburgh resented this lenity shown to a criminal, who was the object of their detestation.
• This was opposed by Lord North, who contended that no acts of lenity ought to attend their restrictive measures.
• In the meantime, as lenity had not disarmed the hostility of the disloyal, he gave some examples of severity.
• The young officers were treated with great lenity, and when his indignation was cooled and the danger over, he scorned to take any revenge for personal wrongs and insults.
• The first offenders that were seized, being tried before county magistrates, met with lenity, from commiseration for their starving condition.
• The case of Mitchel shows, that this minister was as much destitute of truth and honor as of lenity and justice.
• This savage punishment was approved by the higher officers of the navy, who showed great lenity to men of their own rank.
• Mercy and lenity had no effect on those with whom he now contended.
• The reform was doubtless conceived in mercy and a true spirit of sociological lenity toward the offender.
• It will err on the side of lenity, when a mischief is remote and imperceptible.
• At Parramatta various offences were still committed, notwithstanding the lenity which had been shown to several offenders at the close of the last month.
• This lenity was the rather shown at this time, as the convicts were in general giving proofs of a greater disposition to honesty than had for some time been visible among them.
• These persons reinforced their legal argument with the sentimental one that lenity was the best policy.
• The lenity of this sentence may be traced to two causes.
• It seems incredible that they sometimes adopted their prisoners, and treated them with the utmost lenity and even kindness.
• He conducted his plantation with as much lenity as it was possible to infuse into a system darkened with the shadow of a million crimes.
• They are convinced, by sufficient experience, that no plan, either of lenity, or rigor, can be pursued with uniformity and perseverance.
• After this experience, nobody shall persuade me, when an whole people are concerned, that acts of lenity are not means of conciliation.
• The overbearing Coke seems to have aimed at his life, which the lenity of James saved.
• It is well to keep this in view, since it is easier, after an inquiry into the struggle between them, to justify the severity than the lenity of the Holy See.
• He also gives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock, exhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity.
• Lenity to this man would have been a high crime against Congress, the army, and the country, which could not have been justified.

Similar words containing LEN without suffix ity

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