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le·ni·en·cy
 leniency
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- pronunciation:
- lin
y
 n
si
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
noun |
| inflections: |
leniencies |
| definition 1: |
the quality or state of being lenient.
This particular judge had a reputation for leniency.- synonyms:
- clemency, indulgence, softness
- similar words:
- charity, compassion, forbearance, laxness, mercy, permissiveness, tolerance
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| definition 2: |
an act that is lenient.
The principal eventually regretted her leniency with the boy.- synonyms:
- clemency, indulgence, mercy
- similar words:
- amnesty, excuse, forgiveness, pardon, quarter
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| related words: |
charity, forbearance, mercy |
adjective + (n.)leniency
accused, attractive, criminal, excessive, extreme, female, great, guilty, judicial, perceived, sentencing
verb + (n.)leniency
accuse,
apply,
argue,
ask,
beg,
confess,
cooperate,
demonstrate,
depend,
deserve,
exhibit,
gain,
grant,
judge,
obtain,
offer,
perceive,
plead,
quote,
reap,
receive,
recommend,
refuse,
seek,
sentence,
show,
tend,
testify,
treat,
urge
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noun + (n.)leniency
administration,
advantage,
alcohol,
authority,
bias,
case,
circumstance,
coach,
commitment,
compassion,
confession,
consideration,
corporation,
count,
court,
crime,
criminal,
decade,
defendant,
drug,
error,
exchange,
felon,
government,
guilt,
halo,
harvest,
judge,
jury,
lawyer,
legacy,
letter,
neighbor,
offender,
offer,
parole,
participant,
plea,
practice,
promise,
prosecution,
prosecutor,
punishment,
recommendation,
request,
rule,
sentence,
sentencing,
sex,
sort,
strictness,
testimony,
trading,
witness,
youth
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The word leniency
contains the following part:
-ance, -ence, -ency, -ancy
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means state, quality, or act of
  More about this word part:
The suffix group -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
attaches to verbs and Latin verb stems to create nouns. The suffix -ance
is usually attached to whole English words, whereas -ence
is usually attached to roots: compare eloquence
and acceptance
. For most nouns ending in -ance
, -ence
, -ency
, -ancy
, there is a correponsponding adjective form ending in -ant, -ent.
Example words:
absence, acceptance, accountancy, admittance, agency, ambiance, ambience, appetency, arrogance, ascendancy, attendance, audience, belligerency, benevolence, brilliancy, buoyancy, cadence, clemency, complacency, conference, confidence, consequence, conservancy, consistency, constancy, constituency, contingency, counterinsurgency, countertendency, currency, decency, deficiency, delinquency, dependency, despondency, difference, disappearance, discrepancy, disturbance, efficiency, eloquence, emergency, equivalency, excellency, exigency, expectancy, expediency, fluency, frequency, hesitancy, importance, incoherency, inconsistency, incumbency, indecency, independence, independency, inefficiency, infancy, insufficiency, insurgency, interagency, interdependency, itinerancy, latency, leniency, malfeasance, malignancy, mendicancy, nonbelligerency, nonemergency, occupancy, occurrence, patency, permanency, piquancy, poignancy, potency, preference, pregnancy, presidency, proficiency, pungency, redundancy, regency, remembrance, residence, residency, science, solvency, stringency, subagency, sufficiency, superefficiency, superintendency, tenancy, tendency, transparency, urgency, vacancy, vagrancy
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