LENIENCE, LENIENCY, LENIENT, LENIENTLY
ADJECTIVES
1483 — CLEMENT merciful, lenient, kindly; mild and humane in the exercise of power or authority
1620 — LENITIVE of persons, their dispositions, etc.: displaying lenience, gentle, lenient → obs.
1632 — CLEMENTIOUS mild and humane in the exercise of power or authority; merciful, lenient, kindly towards those in one’s power → obs.
ADVERBS
1537 — REMISSIVELY leniently, laxly → obs.
NOUNS
1460 — FAVOUR lenity, mildness, mitigation of punishment; an instance of this, a lenient act → obs.
1545 — FAVOURABLENESS kindliness, leniency → obs.
VERBS
1931 — PULL ONE’S PUNCHES to put less than one’s full force into delivering blows; fig. to use less force than one is capable of exerting; to be gentle or lenient, esp. in criticism or punishment
1950 — TAKE IT EASY to treat leniently → sl.
1961 — PUNCH-PULL to use less force than one is capable of exerting; to be gentle or lenient
2002 — ALLOW to be lenient towards someone; to let someone off lightly → UK sl.
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