Clemency

Word CLEMENCY
Character 8
Hyphenation clem en cy
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Definitions and meanings of "Clemency"

What do we mean by clemency?

A disposition to show mercy, especially toward an offender or enemy. synonym: mercy. noun

A merciful, kind, or lenient act. noun

Mildness, especially of weather. noun

The quality of being clement; mildness of temper, as shown by a superior to an inferior, or by an aggrieved person to the offender; disposition to spare or forgive; mercy; leniency; forbearance. noun

Softness or mildness, as of the elements: as, the clemency of the weather. noun

Synonyms Mercifulness, indulgence, forgiveness, compassion, tenderness, gentleness. noun

Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. noun

Mildness or softness of the elements. noun

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing. noun

Mildness of weather. noun

Leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice noun

Good weather with comfortable temperatures noun

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.

Mildness of weather.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Clemency

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The word "clemency" in example sentences

Enraged at this contempt of what he called his clemency, at Haarlem, Alva resolved to make Alkmaar an example of his cruelty, and he wrote to Philip that everyone in it should be put to the sword. ❋ John [Editor] Rudd (1885)

He has allegedly asked for clemency from the state, according to the same news report. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The president believes that the pardon attorney should have an opportunity to review this case before a decision on clemency is made. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Granting clemency is not undermining the rule of law. ❋ Unknown (2005)

But the real problem with citing thorough court review as a standard for denying clemency is that none of the 152 executions Bush approved would have landed on his desk had the cases not already passed through all the courts. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But clemency is a political act, not a judicial one. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Neither compassion nor "mercy," which the Supreme Court as far back as 1855 saw as central to the very idea of clemency, is acknowledged as being of any account. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Elliott, who has dual U.S. and British nationality, is hoping for clemency from the Texas Pardons and Paroles Board after an appeal to the U.S. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Source's Desire: She wished to receive clemency from the GVN so that she could rejoin her family. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Executive clemency is the last final right a person convicted of murder in our country has to save himself from the gallows. ❋ Unknown (1954)

-- The enthusiastic admiration of the people, under the impulse of grateful and generous feelings, would have dealt summary vengeance on the minority who opposed Saul, had not he, either from principle or policy, shown himself as great in clemency as in valor. ❋ Unknown (1871)

In the first part of his reign, he surpassed in clemency those princes who had been suspected of an attachment to the Christian faith. ❋ Unknown (1206)

While the power to grant clemency is constitutionally invested in the president, I am sure he doesn’t see every application. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Testifying before Congress last year, Joseph Connor, the son of a man killed in what authorities say was a 1975 FALN bombing in New York called the clemency offer "unimaginable, immoral and dangerous." ❋ Unknown (2010)

Explanation – To cruelty is opposed clemency, which is not a passive state of the mind, but a power whereby man restrains his anger and revenge. ❋ Unknown (2007)

James Brosnahan, Lindh's lead lawyer, called the clemency appeal "a simple cry for justice." ❋ Unknown (2007)

Let us give some instances of this clemency, which is very strange in the irascible Wasp. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

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