Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Lenity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete The quality or habit of being lenient; lenity.
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- noun obsolete The quality or habit of being
lenient ;lenity .
Etymologies
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Latin lenitudo.
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reesetee commented on the word lenitude
The quality or habit of being lenient. Odd that we now use latitude similarly, as in "I'll give you some latitude."
February 5, 2007