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Synonyms & Antonyms of lenity
kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it
- a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us
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- atrocity,
- barbarity,
- brutality,
- cruelty,
- sadism,
- savageness,
- savagery,
- truculence,
- viciousness,
- violence,
- wantonness
- cattiness,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- maliciousness,
- malignancy,
- malignity,
- meanness,
- nastiness,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- spleen
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The first known use of lenity was in 1548
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