Clemency: Definition and part of speech

Clemency

  1. n. Mildness or softness of the elements; as, the clemency of the season.
  2. n. Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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