clemency

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/ˈklɛ.mən.si/

noun

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noun
Kindness shown by someone with power, especially by reducing a punishment.
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noun
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A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.

Examples

I'll never ask for clemency.
Islam is a religion of clemency.

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Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses: 4
Parts of speech: 1
Citations: 5

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/ˈklɛ.mən(t).si/

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noun

Extra meanings

Mildness of weather.
The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

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For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
Notwithstanding, that I be not farther tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy clemencie a few words.
A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.

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For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), Lon...
Notwithstanding, that I be not farther tedious vnto thee, I pray thee, that thou wouldest heare vs of thy clemencie a few words.
1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 24:4
A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
2010 May 4, Priyamvada Gopal, “Executing Mumbai gunman is not the answer”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2023
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.
2000, Sandra Day O'Connor, Supreme Court of the United States, edited by Frank D. Wagner, Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard, 523 U.S. 272 (1998) (United States Reports; 523) (judicial opinion), Washington: United States Government Printing Office, →ISBN, Opinion of O'Connor, J., page 289
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.
1748, Edward Chamberlayne, chapter IV, in Magnae Britanniae notitia: or, the present state of Great Britain. With diverse reflections upon the ancient state thereof, London: Printed for S. Birt, T. Longman, T. Shewel, […] , →OCLC, page 31

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Origin

noun

From Middle English clemency, clemencie, from Latin clēmentia. Gradually eclipsed Middle English clemence, from Old French clemence, from the same Latin origin.

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noun

The governor granted blank to the prisoner due to his terminal illness.