Definition of Lenients

1. lenient [n] - See also: lenient

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenients

lengthly
lengthman
lengths
lengthscale
lengthscales
lengthsman
lengthways
lengthwise
lengthy
lenience
leniences
leniencies
leniency
lenient
leniently
lenients (current term)
lenified
lenifies
lenify
lenifying
leniment
leniments
leningradite
lenis
lenite
lenited
lenites
lenities
leniting
lenition

Literary usage of Lenients

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmacopoeia Radcliffeana: Or, Dr. Radcliffe's Prescriptions, Faithfully by John Radcliffe (1716)
"... (hoves 'em forward, and they may be gradually carry'd off. Hippocrates, Aph. i. Sett. 4. allows lenients in Women advanc'd to the 4th or 7th Months, ..."

2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1764)
"... to the preferable method ufed by Dr. Town and others there, of giving repeated lenients, and of interlacing them with opiates to allay the pain, ..."

3. Political Science and Comparative Constitutional Law by John William Burgess (1890)
".'lenients that the nly sover- ution does 2 Schulze, Lehrbuch des deutschen Staatsrechts, zweites Buch, S. 12. 3 Bundesgesetzblatt, 1869, S. 145. ..."

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