Usage examples (33)

• And here I must observe, that the Americans can no longer anticipate lenity from the English traveller, as latterly they have so deeply committed themselves.
• But as Demeo told him, tu illum corrumpi sinis, your lenity will be his undoing, praevidere videor jam diem, illum, quum hic egens profugiet aliquo militatum, I foresee...
• It is even good policy to treat prisoners with the greatest lenity which is consistent with their safe-keeping.
• Thus by the rigour of the magistrate, and the lenity of the subject,