Usually means: Mercy or leniency in punishment.
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  1. lenity: Merriam-Webster
  2. lenity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lenity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lenity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lenity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lenity, lenity: Wordnik
  7. lenity: Wiktionary
  8. lenity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lenity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lenity: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Lenity, lenity: Dictionary.com
  12. Lenity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lenity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. lenity: Rhymezone
  15. Lenity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lenity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. lenity: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lenity: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. lenity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lenity: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. lenity: Legal dictionary

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  1. lenity: A Word A Day
  2. lenity: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lenity)

▸ noun:  leniency, mercy, forgiveness

Similar:
leniency, mildness, lenience, clemency, favor, lenient, mercy, semperlenity, longanimity, kindliness, more...

Opposite:
severity, harshness, strictness

Types:
judicial activism, judicial restraint, originalism, more...

Phrases:
rule of lenity, more...

Adjectives:
great, much, such, excessive, mistaken, extreme, utmost, unexpected, undue, respective, former

Colors:
    pale blue,     lavender,     soft pink,     light green,     pastel yellow, more...

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Similar:
leniency, mildness, lenience, clemency, favor, lenient, mercy, semperlenity, longanimity, kindliness, more...

Opposite:
severity, harshness, strictness

Types:
judicial activism, judicial restraint, originalism, more...

Phrases:
rule of lenity, more...

Adjectives:
great, much, such, excessive, mistaken, extreme, utmost, unexpected, undue, respective, former

Colors:
    pale blue,     lavender,     soft pink,     light green,     pastel yellow, more...



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