lenity
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Lenity which "clears the guilty" is neither mercy, nor graciousness, nor compassion, nor forgiveness.
From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt
Lenity confounds offender and offense in a wholesale and promiscuous amnesty.
From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt
Lenity was wasted on a rude, licentious soldiery, who hardly recognized the existence of government, unless they felt its rigor.
From History of the Conquest of Peru by Prescott, William Hickling
Lenity to this man would have been a high crime against Congress, the army, and the country, which could not have been justified.
From The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest by Sparks, William Henry
Lenity ignores the wrong; and by ignoring it, becomes responsible for its repetition.—Lenity is sentimentality bestowed on criminals.
From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt
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