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Definition of Leniently
1. Adverb. In a permissively lenient manner. "He felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime"
Definition of Leniently
1. adv. In a lenient manner.
Definition of Leniently
1. Adverb. In a lenient manner. ¹
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Definition of Leniently
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leniently
Literary usage of Leniently
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire (1843)
"... am acquainted in modern history. leniently towards him ; and after reducing ;
Judge for yourself, sir, after this, him to the situation of a monk, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The principle being once con- ceded, redemptions of penance would become general,
and would be tolerated more leniently from the circumstance that they ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Henry* в character is тегу leniently There are sketches of Herbert in Leland's
.... leniently."
4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1844)
"inaccuracies, chiefly in the omission of single letters from words ; and, as
authors, we cannot but think leniently of such errors) may be had in the form ..."
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