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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Clemency \Clem"en*cy\, n.; pl. {Clemencies}. [L. clementia, fr.
     clemens mild, calm.]
     1. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness
        of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.
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              Great clemency and tender zeal toward their
              subjects.                             --Stowe.
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              They had applied for the royal clemency. --Macaulay.
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     2. Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of
        the season.
  
     Syn: Mildness; tenderness; indulgence; lenity; mercy;
          gentleness; compassion; kindness.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  clemency
       n 1: good weather with comfortable temperatures [syn: {mildness}]
       2: leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person
          or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw
          himself on the mercy of the court" [syn: {mercifulness}, {mercy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  50 Moby Thesaurus words for "clemency":
     acceptance, benevolence, caritas, charity, clementness,
     commiseration, compassion, condolence, easiness, easygoingness,
     endurance, equitableness, fairness, favor, feeling, forbearance,
     forbearing, forgiveness, gentleness, grace, humaneness, humanity,
     indulgence, just, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency,
     lenientness, lenity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation,
     moderateness, pardon, pathos, patience, pity, quarter, relief,
     reprieve, ruth, self-pity, softness, sufferance, sympathy,
     tenderness, tolerance, toleration
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CLEMENCY. The disposition to treat with leniency. See Mercy; Pardon. 
  
  

















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