clemency

Meanings

Plural: clemencies

Noun

• good weather with comfortable temperatures
• leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice
• The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
• A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
• Mildness of weather.

Synonyms

mercifulness, mercy, mildness

Antonyms

cruelty

Related Words

clemence, clement