Crossword-Solution: LENITY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lenity | n. | The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to severity and rigor. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LENITY | anagram | YETLIN |
We have 75 clues for the answer “LENITY”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Tolerance(6) | 1 answer |
| Softies show it | 1 answer |
| Mild quality | 1 answer |
| Mercy; kindness | 1 answer |
| Merciful judgment. | 1 answer |
| mercifulness | 3 answers |
| CARITAS | 4 answers |
| humaneness | 5 answers |
| Mildness. | 17 answers |
| Godliness | 27 answers |
| sainthood | 28 answers |
| Devoutness | 31 answers |
| laxness | 36 answers |
| Religion | 36 answers |
| benignity | 39 answers |
| condescension | 40 answers |
| kindliness | 41 answers |
| gentleness | 41 answers |
| capitulation | 43 answers |
| toleration | 44 answers |
| Lenience | 44 answers |
| sufferance | 45 answers |
| piety | 46 answers |
| peace of mind | 46 answers |
| "Pity!" | 46 answers |
| good will | 47 answers |
| Liberality | 49 answers |
| tolerance | 50 answers |
| Durability | 50 answers |
| Holiness | 51 answers |
| Mercy! | 51 answers |
| Charity | 52 answers |
| Magnanimity | 53 answers |
| forgiveness | 54 answers |
| Homage | 54 answers |
| concession | 55 answers |
| forbearance | 55 answers |
| perseverance | 55 answers |
| exceller | 57 answers |
| Sanctity | 58 answers |
| Stamina | 58 answers |
| benediction | 58 answers |
| Deference | 58 answers |
| Temperance | 58 answers |
| clemency | 59 answers |
| invocation | 59 answers |
| Gray matter? | 60 answers |
| Endurance | 61 answers |
| Blessing | 63 answers |
| Favour | 64 answers |
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Sentences with LENITY (5)
And even in these, if there were some difference, there should be proper lenity on the part of bishops to bear with us by reason of the Confession which we have now reviewed; because even the Canons are not so severe as to demand the same rites everywhere, neither, at any time, have the rites of all churches been the same; although, among us, in large part, the ancient rites are diligently observed.
Justice Bradstreet, having committed thirty or forty persons, became aroused to the absurdity of the whole matter; the minister of Andover had the good sense to resist the theological view; even so high a personage as Lady Phips, the wife of the Governor, began to show lenity.
The new outrage, by which she had provoked her fate, seemed to render further lenity impossible; and a gentleman in military dress, with a stout man of inferior rank, drew towards the door of the meeting-house, and awaited her approach.
Its style is conversational; or the soliloquy rather of a man convincing and amusing himself as he proceeds, without reverence for others’ faith, or lenity towards others’ prejudices.
This was a law dooming any man to the punishment of death, who should live with a woman that was not his wife; and this law, through the lenity of the duke, being utterly disregarded, the holy institution of marriage became neglected, and complaints were every day made to the duke by the parents of the young ladies in Vienna, that their daughters had been seduced from their protection, and were living as the companions of single men.
Quotes with LENITY (1)
If the empire had been afflicted by any recent calamity, by a plague, a famine, or an unsuccessful war; if the Tiber had, or if the Nile had not, risen beyond its banks; if the earth had shaken, or if the temperate order of the seasons had been interrupted, the superstitious Pagans were convinced that the crimes and the impiety of the Christians, who were spared by the excessive lenity of the government, had at length provoked the divine justice.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1951–2014).