leniencen.
/ˈliːnɪəns/, U.S. /ˈliniəns/ Lenient action or behaviour, indulgence.
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society > authority > lack of strictness > [noun] > leniency
neshc1175
moderation?a1425
favourc1460
easiness1483
favourableness1545
lightness1611
grace1660
leniency1780
lenience1796
1796 A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 163 I am indebted rather to this skiey-lenience, than to any great decrease in the complaint itself.
1815 J. C. Hobhouse Substance Lett. (1816) II. 211 It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmost lenience.
1826 R. H. Froude Remains (1838) I. 84 To look with lenience on the faults.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lix. 185 An ignorant unkindness, the most remote from Deronda's large imaginative lenience towards others.
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