clemency

English

WOTD – 19 August 2012

From Latin clēmentia.

clemency (countable and uncountable, plural clemencies)

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
- 1601, William Shakespeare, Hamlet:
  For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie.
- 2010, Priyamvada Gopal, The Guardian, 4 May 2010:
  A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
(law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
(now rare) Mildness of weather.

leniency, mercy

Armenian: գթություն (hy) (gtʿutʿyun), գթասրտություն (hy) (gtʿasrtutʿyun), մեղմություն (hy) (mełmutʿyun)
Dutch: mildheid (nl) f, genade (nl) f, clementie (nl) f
Finnish: lempeys (fi), armo (fi)
French: clémence (fr) f
Georgian: შეწყალება (šec̣q̇aleba), პატიება (ṗaṭieba), მოწყალება (moc̣q̇aleba), ლმობიერება (lmobiereba)
German: Milde (de) f
Italian: clemenza (it) f
Latin: clēmentia f

Ngazidja Comorian: rehema class 9
Portuguese: clemência (pt) f
Romanian: clemență (ro) f, îndurare (ro) f, bunătate (ro) f
Russian: милосе́рдие (ru) n (milosérdije), снисходи́тельность (ru) f (snisxodítelʹnostʹ), поми́лование (ru) n (pomílovanije) (pardon), (mercy) поща́да (ru) f (poščáda)
Serbo-Croatian: благост f, попустљивост f
Spanish: clemencia (es) f
Swedish: mildhet c
Uzbek: marhamat (uz), rahmdillik (uz), mehr (uz), rahm (uz), shafqat (uz)

mildness of weather