lenity
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Lenity to others leads us to be lenient toward ourselves; and we commit wrong in expectation of that lenient treatment which we are in the habit of according to others.
From Practical Ethics by Hyde, William De Witt
Lenity is undoubtedly the proper word to use, though both Webster and Worcester do recognize leniency and lenience.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Osmun, Thomas Embly
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
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
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