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Webster 1913 Edition
Lenient
Le′ni-ent
(lē′nĭ-ent or lēn′yent)
, Adj.
1.
Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; – sometimes followed by of.
“Lenient of grief.” Milton.
O[GREEK][GREEK] relax the fibers, are
lenient
, balsamic. Arbuthnot.
Time, that on all things lays his
lenient
hand. Pope.
2.
Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe;
as, a
lenient
disposition; a lenient
judge or sentence.Le′ni-ent
,Noun.
(Med.)
A lenitive; an emollient.
Webster 1828 Edition
Lenient
LE'NIENT
,Adj.
1.
Softening; mitigating; assuasive.Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand, yet tames not this.
Sometimes with of; as lenient of grief.
2.
Laxative; emollient.Oils relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic.
LE'NIENT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
lenient
lenient
English
Adjective
lenient (comparative more lenient, superlative most lenient)
- Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
- The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion.
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII
- But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.
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tolerant; not strict
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Noun
lenient (plural lenients)