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n. The condition or quality of being lenient. See Synonyms at mercy.

n. A lenient act.

n. The quality of mercy or forgiveness, especially in the assignment of punishment as in a court case.

n. An act of being lenient.

n. The quality of being lenient; mildness; gentleness; lenity.

n. Synonyms Leniency, Lenity, Clemency, Mercy; humanity, tenderness, forbearance. Clemency is exercised only toward offenders, being especially the attribute of those in exalted places having power to remit or lighten penalty. Leniency, as a word, is much more common and expressive than lenity; leniency or lenity may be practised by any one having authority to lighten or remit penalty or to excuse from tasks: as, the leniency of a judge, a parent, or a teacher. Mercy has a twofold use, expressing clemency toward offenders or great kindness toward the distressed; in either sense it is a strong word.

n. a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone

n. lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers

n. mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant

"Appealing against what they called the leniency of the punishment, prosecutors are to now seek that Zana be re-tried on the grounds that she should have been given prison sentences of five years for each of the nine speeches she had made."

mercifulness    mercy   

lenity    clemency    mildness    forbearance    lenience    liberality    gentleness    cordiality    solicitude    indulgence