Usually means: Mercy shown towards a convict.
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  1. clemency: Merriam-Webster
  2. clemency: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. clemency: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. clemency: Collins English Dictionary
  5. clemency: Vocabulary.com
  6. Clemency, clemency: Wordnik
  7. clemency: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. clemency: Wiktionary
  9. clemency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. clemency: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. clemency: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. clemency: Dictionary.com
  13. clemency: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. clemency: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Clemency (commune), Clemency (disambiguation), Clemency (film), Clemency: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Clemency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. clemency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. clemency: Rhymezone
  19. Clemency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. clemency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. clemency: FreeDictionary.org
  22. clemency: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. clemency: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. clemency: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. clemency: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. clemency: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. clemency: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. clemency: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Clemency: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (clemency)

▸ noun:  The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
▸ noun:  (law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
▸ noun:  (now rare) Mildness of weather.

Similar:
mercifulness, mercy, mildness, lenience, leniency, favor, lenity, lenient, gentleness, mildheartedness, more...

Opposite:
cruelty, severity

Types:
pardon, commutation, reprieve, more...

Phrases:
executive clemency, Clemency Burton-Hill, shows clemency, opposite of clemency, more...

Adjectives:
executive, royal, great, divine, such, imperial, more, usual, unusual, generous, presidential

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Similar:
mercifulness, mercy, mildness, lenience, leniency, favor, lenity, lenient, gentleness, mildheartedness, more...

Opposite:
cruelty, severity

Types:
pardon, commutation, reprieve, more...

Phrases:
executive clemency, Clemency Burton-Hill, shows clemency, opposite of clemency, more...

Adjectives:
executive, royal, great, divine, such, imperial, more, usual, unusual, generous, presidential

Colors:
    sky blue,     lavender,     mint green,     soft pink,     pale peach, more...



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