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 Definitions for lenient: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Lenient \Le"ni*ent\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*ent or l[=e]n"yent), a. [L.
leniens, -entis, p. pr. of lenire to soften, fr. lenis soft,
mild. Cf. Lithe.]
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1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes
followed by of. "Lenient of grief." --Milton.
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O?? relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic.
--Arbuthnot.
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Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand.
--Pope.
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2. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a
lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Lenient \Le"ni*ent\, n. (Med.)
A lenitive; an emollient.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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lenient
adj 1: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their
children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is
weak"; "too soft on the children" [syn: indulgent, lax,
soft]
2: not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient
rules" [syn: easy]
3: characterized by tolerance and mercy
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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95 Moby Thesaurus words for "lenient":
Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive,
agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive, balmy, bland,
bleeding, careless, charitable, clement, commiserative,
compassionate, complaisant, condolent, consenting, considerate,
delicate, disciplined, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, faint,
forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, heedful,
helpful, human, humane, impotent, imprecise, indifferent,
indulgent, kind, kindly, lax, long-suffering, longanimous, loose,
magnanimous, melting, merciful, mild, mindful, mindful of others,
moderate, negligent, nonprohibitive, obliging, overindulgent,
overpermissive, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting,
persevering, philosophical, pitying, regardful, relaxed, remiss,
ruthful, self-controlled, slack, slipshod, sloppy, smooth, soft,
softhearted, solicitous, sparing, stoic, suffering, sympathetic,
sympathizing, tactful, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant,
tolerating, tolerative, understanding, unprohibitive, unrestrained,
warmhearted, weak
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