LekhoriLekhoriThe gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
Judicial intervention might, for example, be warranted in the face of a scheme whereby a state official flipped a coin to determine whether to grant clemency, or in a case where the State arbitrarily denied a prisoner any access to its clemency process.
Mildness of weather.
Now of all theſe Things there is ſuch a conſtant Continuance, by reaſon of the Clemency of the Climate, that ſcarce the leaſt Famine, which frequenteth other Countries, hath been felt in England theſe 400 Years.
From Middle English clemency, clemencie, from Latin clēmentia. Gradually eclipsed Middle English clemence, from Old French clemence, from the same Latin origin.
Select a language to see translations