Usually means: Tolerance shown in enforcing rules.
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  1. lenience: Merriam-Webster
  2. lenience: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lenience: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lenience: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lenience: Vocabulary.com
  6. lenience: Wordnik
  7. lenience: Wiktionary
  8. lenience: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. Lenience, lenience: Dictionary.com
  10. Lenience: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Lenience: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. lenience: Rhymezone
  13. Lenience: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. lenience: FreeDictionary.org
  15. lenience: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. lenience: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lenience: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lenience)

▸ noun:  Leniency: mercy or forgiveness in the assignment of punishment.

Similar:
leniency, lenity, mildness, indulgence, favor, clemency, mercy, lenient, semperlenity, kindliness, more...

Opposite:
strictness, severity, harshness, rigor

Adjectives:
more, such, greater, excessive, relative, undue, comparative, large, special, foolish, little



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Similar:
leniency, lenity, mildness, indulgence, favor, clemency, mercy, lenient, semperlenity, kindliness, more...

Opposite:
strictness, severity, harshness, rigor

Adjectives:
more, such, greater, excessive, relative, undue, comparative, large, special, foolish, little



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