Lenient

4 definitions found

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

  Lenient \Le"ni*ent\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*ent or l[=e]n"yent), a. [L.
     leniens, -entis, p. pr. of lenire to soften, fr. lenis soft,
     mild. Cf. {Lithe}.]
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     1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes
        followed by of. "Lenient of grief." --Milton.


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              O?? relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic.
                                                    --Arbuthnot.
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              Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a
        lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lenient \Le"ni*ent\, n. (Med.)
     A lenitive; an emollient.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lenient
       adj 1: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their
              children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is
              weak"; "too soft on the children" [syn: {indulgent}, {lax},
               {soft}]
       2: not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient
          rules" [syn: {easy}]
       3: characterized by tolerance and mercy

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

  95 Moby Thesaurus words for "lenient":
     Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive,
     agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive, balmy, bland,
     bleeding, careless, charitable, clement, commiserative,
     compassionate, complaisant, condolent, consenting, considerate,
     delicate, disciplined, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, faint,
     forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, heedful,
     helpful, human, humane, impotent, imprecise, indifferent,
     indulgent, kind, kindly, lax, long-suffering, longanimous, loose,
     magnanimous, melting, merciful, mild, mindful, mindful of others,
     moderate, negligent, nonprohibitive, obliging, overindulgent,
     overpermissive, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting,
     persevering, philosophical, pitying, regardful, relaxed, remiss,
     ruthful, self-controlled, slack, slipshod, sloppy, smooth, soft,
     softhearted, solicitous, sparing, stoic, suffering, sympathetic,
     sympathizing, tactful, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant,
     tolerating, tolerative, understanding, unprohibitive, unrestrained,
     warmhearted, weak