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leniency
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 leniency
Mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant.
synoniemen: lenience, lenity, mildness.
Roget 740:
lenity,
lenience,
leniency;
moderation
etc.
174;
tolerance,
toleration;
mildness,
gentleness;
favor,
indulgence,
indulgency†;
clemency,
mercy,
forbearance,
quarter;
compassion
etc.
914.
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Roget 914:
pity,
compassion,
commiseration;
bowels,
of compassion;
sympathy,
fellow-feeling,
tenderness,
yearning,
forbearance,
humanity,
mercy,
clemency;
leniency
etc.
(lenity)
740;
charity,
ruth,
long-suffering.
melting mood;
argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.],
quarter,
grace,
locus paenitentiae [Lat.].
sympathizer;
advocate,
friend,
partisan,
patron,
wellwisher.
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Nederlands: clementie, zachtheid
Pools: pobłażanie, pobłażliwość
2 leniency
A disposition to yield to the wishes of someone.
synoniemen: indulgence, lenience.
Nederlands: conniventie, conveniëntie, coulance, flexibiliteit, inschikkelijkheid, meegaandheid, plooibaarheid, souplesse
3 leniency
Lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers.
synoniem: lenience.
Pools: folgowanie
Moby betekeniswoordenboek: abatement, acceptance, accommodatingness, agreeableness, allayment, alleviation, assuagement, attentiveness, benevolence, blunting, calming, carelessness, charitableness, charity, clemency, commiseration, compassion, complaisance, concern, condolence, condonation, considerateness, consideration, damping, deadening, delicacy, demulsion, diminution, downiness, dulcification, dulling, easiness, easing, easygoingness, endurance, falling-off, favor, featheriness, feeling, flossiness, fluffiness, forbearance, forbearing, forbearingness, forgiveness, fortitude, generousness, gentleness, grace, heedfulness, helpfulness, humanity, hushing, impotence, imprecision, indifference, indulgence, insolidity, kindness, laxity, laxness, lenience, lenity, lessening, letdown, letup, lightening, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, looseness, loosening, lulling, magnanimity, mellowness, mercifulness, mercy, mindfulness, mitigation, modulation, mollification, morbidezza, negligence, nonresistiveness, nonrigidity, obligingness, overindulgence, overpermissiveness, pacification, palliation, pardon, pathos, patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, pity, plushiness, pulpiness, quarter, quietening, quieting, reduction, regard, regardfulness, relaxation, relaxedness, relief, remission, remissness, reprieve, ruth, satininess, self-control, self-pity, silkiness, slackening, slackness, sloppiness, softening, softness, solicitousness, solicitude, soothing, sponginess, stoicism, subduement, sufferance, sweet reasonableness, sympathy, tact, tactfulness, tempering, tenderness, thought, thoughtfulness, tolerance, toleration, tranquilization, unrestraint, unsolidity, velvetiness, waiting game, waiting it out, weakness ... meer laten zien.
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