Lenient or merciful; charitable.
I know you are more clement than vilde^([sic – meaning vile]) men, / Who of their broken Debtors take a third, / A ſixt, a tenth, letting them thriue againe / On their abatement; […]
Mild (said of weather and similar circumstances).
The weather is clement, though there was a downpour yesterday and I was obliged to take precautions.
A male given name from Latin, borne by an early pope and by several saints.
And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
From Old French, from Latin clēmēns (“merciful”). Equivalent to clīnō + participial suffix -menos.
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