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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diary in America, Series One] Reference

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 his ruin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference

It is even good policy to treat prisoners with the greatest lenity which is consistent with their safe-keeping.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lectures, Corrected and Improved, which Have Been Delivered for a Series of Years in the ...] Reference

Thus by the rigour of the magistrate, and the lenity of the subject.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference

He confirmed the sentence and censured the Court for mistaken lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

I had rather err with mercy than justice, for had not my lenity made me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

With unaccustomed lenity it punished a first conviction with the pillory only.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Superstitions of Witchcraft] Reference

If slavery were not in question, you would doubtless say ours is mistaken lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

The mistake of the military authorities in regard to the New York riot, was lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Cardinal Ruffo, too, seems to have entertained what they considered as erroneous ideas of lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2] Reference

With such, a threat of confiscation will be found of more avail than all the lenity in the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference

Commodore, who was not less remarkable for his lenity and humanity than for his resolution and courage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anson's Voyage Round the World The Text Reduced] Reference

If we cannot reduce this wished for reformation to practice, let us treat the unhappy victims with lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917] Reference

In the meantime, as lenity had not disarmed the hostility of the disloyal, he gave some examples of severity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

But what return, the Protector declares, has been made by the Malignants for the lenity thus extended to them?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

When the court or tribunal demanded his presence, he was grave, intent, awful, yet generally inclined to lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus] Reference

This was opposed by Lord North, who contended that no acts of lenity ought to attend their restrictive measures.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

Tallien's schemes of personal advantage, at the expence of scandalizing the republic by an appearance of lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners] Reference

These were tried, sentenced, and executed by order of the king, who was determined to show no lenity to the rebels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton] Reference

I have myself heard these evil-minded persons lament and complain that their victims were treated with too much lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference

But music excites all these, and is likewise able to inspire the soul with a sense of pity, lenity, tenderness, and love.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference

"My desire is to use lenity; I therefore still do allow you time to consider with yourself, that you may save your life.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference

I had never seen Mr. Worthing, but I at once felt much respect for him, for the lenity and discretion he had shown in the matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Duty, and Other Stories] Reference

The respect entertained for his foster parents by the people of the village was all that caused them to show lenity to the erring boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Duty, and Other Stories] Reference

This lenity only emboldened the malcontents, and a third plot was formed to seize the stores and take entire possession of the islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885] Reference

Thou art acquainted, O prince, with the lenity and severity of fate; this anxiety therefore for the safety of thy children is unbecoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Adi Parva] Reference

In Maryland where slaves are treated with as much lenity, as perhaps they are any where, their situation is to the last degree ineligible.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916] Reference

He also gives him particular advice for his own conduct to his flock, exhorting him to hold to strictness of discipline, but seasoned with lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference

Judea continued subject to Persia until Alexander conquered that country; it then fell under his dominion and he treated the Jews with great lenity.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Week of Instruction and Amusement, or, Mrs. Harley's birthday present to her daughter : interspersed with short stories, outlines of sacred and prophane history, geography &c.] Reference

Nevertheless, on the twenty-third of March almost all of the prisoners were released from their fetters, an indulgence which was a proof of the lenity of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

Indulgence and lenity might perhaps prove more efficacious, as the swellings of phrenzy would in time subside, in proportion as they exceed the bounds of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference

The emperor wishing to win these soldiers to renounce their faith by his entreaties and lenity, gave them a considerable respite till he returned from an expedition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

Cromwell was much vexed at the lenity displayed, but the bishop was ever more ready to receive injury than to retaliate in any other manner than by good advice and good offices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference