lenient
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noun
allowing, benevolent, charitable, clemens, clement, compassionate, condoning, considerate, easy, easygoing, enduring, exorable, favoring, forbearing, forgiving, free from vindictiveness, generous, gentle, humane, humoring, indulgent, indulging, kind, kindhearted, lenis, liberal, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, merciful, mild, mitis, moderate, pampering, pardoning, patient, pitying, placable, soft, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tolerant, undemanding, unstrict, willing to forgive, yielding
foreign phrases:
- Cum confitente sponte mitius est agendum. — One confessing voluntarily should be dealt with more leniently
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index
palliative (abating), perfunctory, permissive, placable
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006