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lenience|ˈliːnɪəns|
[f. lenient: see -ence.]
Lenient action or behaviour, indulgence.
1796A. Seward Lett. (1811) IV. 163, I am indebted rather to this skiey-lenience, than to any great decrease in the complaint itself. 1815Hobhouse Substance Lett. (1816) II. 211 It will be necessary that this acceptance should be followed up by measures of the utmost lenience. 1826R. H. Froude Rem. (1838) I. 84 To look with lenience on the faults. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. IV. 185 An ignorant unkindness, the most remote from Deronda's large imaginative lenience towards others. |