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Definition of Leniencies
1. leniency [n] - See also: leniency
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leniencies
Literary usage of Leniencies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"э tho Pythagorean ideal. la beliefs, institutions, and leniencies wo are struck
by their close resemblance. It is not impossible they woro directly ..."
2. Psychology by William James (1892)
"... and the emotional and instinctive leniencies, by "associations between ideas
and movements ..."
3. The Christian Spectator (1826)
"The moral distinctions, however, or general leniencies of actions to excite this
emotion, are not on this account less Certain ; or we must say, ..."
4. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1838)
"... and in order to take one comprehensive view of all the leniencies of man, he
made himself acquainted with the litera- ure of a variety of countries, ..."
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