I am disposed to be lenient

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• lenient — adj. 1 merciful, tolerant, not disposed to severity. 2 (of punishment etc.) mild. 3 archaic emollient. Derivatives: lenience n. leniency n. leniently adv. Etymology: L lenire lenit soothe f. lenis gentle …   Useful english dictionary

• kind — Synonyms and related words: Christian, Christlike, Christly, accommodating, advantageous, affable, affectionate, agreeable, altruistic, amiable, amicable, animal kingdom, approachable, auspicious, beneficent, beneficial, benevolent, benign,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• compassionate — Synonyms and related words: Christian, Christlike, Christly, accepting, ache, affectionate, benign, benignant, bleeding, brotherly, charitable, clement, commiserate, commiserative, condolent, decent, deplore, easy, easygoing, feel for, forbearant …   Moby Thesaurus

• china — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. a translucent ceramic material, biscuit fired at a high temperature, its glaze fired at a low temperature. 2. any porcelain ware. 3. plates, cups, saucers, etc., collectively. 4. figurines made of porcelain or ceramic material …   Universalium

• China — /chuy neuh/, n. 1. People s Republic of, a country in E Asia. 1,221,591,778; 3,691,502 sq. mi. (9,560,990 sq. km). Cap.: Beijing. 2. Republic of. Also called Nationalist China. a republic consisting mainly of the island of Taiwan off the SE coast …   Universalium

• benevolent — I adjective accommodating, affable, agreeable, altruistic, amiable, amicable, bearing good will, beneficient, benevolus, benign, big hearted, bounteous, bountiful, charitable, complacent, condolent, considerate, cooperative, cordial, decent,… …   Law dictionary

• PURITY AND IMPURITY, RITUAL — (Heb. וְטָהֳרָה טֻמְאָה, tumah ve toharah), a symbolic system according to which a pure person or object is qualified for contact with the Temple and related sancta (holy objects and spaces) while an impure person or object is disqualified from… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism

• aesthetics — /es thet iks/ or, esp. Brit., /ees /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the… …   Universalium

• Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …   Universalium

• agreeable — Synonyms and related words: Junoesque, OK, abject, acceptable, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, accordant, achingly sweet, acquiescent, admissible, adorable, affable, affirmative, agreeable, agreeable sounding, agreeing, akin, alacritous …   Moby Thesaurus

• consenting — Synonyms and related words: abject, accepting, accordant, acquiescent, acquiescing, admissive, affirmative, agreeable, agreed, agreeing, alacritous, allowing, amenable, approving, ardent, assentatious, assenting, complaisant, compliable,… …   Moby Thesaurus