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词汇 clemency
释义 clemency
noun[ U ]
 formaluk /ˈklem.ən.si/ us /ˈklem.ən.si/

clemencynoun[U] (KINDNESS)


kindness when giving a punishment: (施加惩罚时表现出的)宽厚,仁慈
The jury passed a verdict of guilty, with an appeal to the judge for clemency.陪审团通过了有罪的判决,同时请求法官从宽处理。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lenient & merciful
charitable
charitably
charity
ease
ease up/off
easy
go easyidiom
have a heart!idiom
heart
leniency
lenient
magnanimous
magnanimously
merciful
mercy
quarter
squishy

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Not punishing & reducing punishment

clemencynoun[U] (WEATHER)


(of weather) the quality of being pleasant or not severe(指天气)温和,宜人
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Describing good weather
anticyclone
be set fairidiom
bone dryidiom
brighten
brighten up
calm
clear
clement
cloudless
fair
fine
glorious
gloriously
mild
mildness
set
summery
sun shower
sun-drenched
sunny

clemency | American Dictionary


clemency
noun[ U ]
us/ˈklem·ən·si/
an act of mercy by a person in authority toward someone who has committed a crime, esp. by reducing a punishment:
The governor refused to grant him clemency, and he was executed at 9 a.m. yesterday.

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If that is rejected, the president can exercise clemency.
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We cannot allow the clemency appeal to be considered in isolation: there must be political pressure to accompany it.
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Our appeal for clemency has been considered carefully in this case.
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Are not those mitigating circumstances that a clemency appeal could consider?
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We have made repeated calls for clemency on humanitarian grounds.
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He also lodged a strong appeal for clemency for others currently under sentence of death.
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I can recall no recent case in which such a strong and unanimous view was expressed across the world in favour of clemency.
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Following an internal review, we have decided to widen our existing criteria for supporting clemency pleas.
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They despise clemency as a sign of weakness.
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Would the newspapers have carried editorials pleading for clemency?
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The extent to which clemency may properly be exercised is a matter for the authorities.
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I am not prepared to recommend any further exercise of clemency in this matter.
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An appeal for clemency is a request to foreign authorities to exercise such leniency as they can under their own legal and constitutional system.
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We must now await the outcome of the men's clemency petitions.
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Our constituents qualify for clemency on each of those criteria.
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