But do not imagine that with all this lenity I have for a moment given up my plan of her marriage.

And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity?

She seldom deviated into either extreme of rigour or lenity.

Away to heaven, respective lenity, And fire-eyed fury be my conduct now!

My gracious liege, this too much lenity And harmful pity must be laid aside.

We learn at this point that "lenity," in the same way, is nearer to what we normally consider punishment.

How apt is lenity To be abused!

A little more lenity to lechery would do no harm in him; something too crabbed that way, friar.

Time will bring lenity and pardon.

But this unexpected lenity was short-lived.

After debate, the council decides instead to blind Gulliver, as a mark of their "lenity" (mercy).

The conservatives grumble that such lenity encourages evildoers. "

Good bawcock, bate thy rage; use lenity, sweet chuck!

Use lenity, sweet chuck.

Rule of lenity favors Banki, 4.

If he have power, Then vail your ignorance; if none, awake Your dangerous lenity.

Nothing could exceed the lenity of Lord Roberts's early proclamations in the Free State.

Professor Dillard smiled with patronizing lenity.

The remainder of my life shall be employed in expiating this single fault, and your lenity will bring back a soul to heaven!'

These include a welfare system that encourages dependency and irresponsible reproduction and an excessive lenity toward criminals, which encourages crime.

"The court must apply the principle of lenity," the judge wrote, "which leads to resolution of ambiguity in favor of Bay Casino."

"Many of the cavaliers blamed extremely that lenity towards him, which was so honourable in the king, and so advantageous to posterity.

Against these their rights of men let no government look for security in the length of its continuance, or in the justice and lenity of its administration.

According to contemporary accounts, the "lenity" of Lord Cornwallis to Moore "and other rebels, gave considerable offence to the violent loyalists".

So great was his lenity that he put an end to all pastoral rigour; and was a better monk than abbot, a better bishop than archbishop.