[f. LENIENT: see -ENCY.] The quality of being lenient.
1780. Mad. D’Arblay, Lett., 9 June. After all the leniency and forbearance of the ministry.
1794. Coleridge, Lett. (1895), I. 71. All the fellows tried to persuade the Master to greater leniency, but in vain.
1844. H. H. Wilson, Brit. India, II. 392. No leniency towards him could appease his resentment.
1868. E. Edwards, Ralegh, I. iii. 38. Leniency to malefactors … was cruelty to the good and peaceable subjects.
