lenity
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Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
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 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 will operate with greater force, in some instances, than vigor.
From The Century Vocabulary Builder by Bachelor, Joseph M. (Joseph Morris)
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