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Do you have an idea to patent? Click here for a FREE Inventors Kit from Inventors Helpline. http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/45601/158040/158040 <a href="http://by.advertising.com/1/c/62072/45601/158040/158040"< AOL users click here </a< \-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-/ Word of the Day for Friday March 8, 2002: lenity \LEN-uh-tee\, noun: The state or quality of being lenient; mildness; gentleness of treatment; leniency. The criminal suspect is pressured by remorse or hope of lenity or sheer despair to fess up. --Richard A. Posner, "Let Them Talk," [1]The New Republic, August 21, 2000 In this context, severity is justice, lenity injustice. --Dr Anthony Daniels, "It's no way to treat a lunatic," [2]Sunday Telegraph, December 13, 1998 . . . an excessive lenity toward criminals, which encourages crime. --Richard A. Posner, "The Moral Minority," [3]New York Times, December 19, 1999 And what makes robbers bold but too much lenity? --William Shakespeare, Henry VI, part III _________________________________________________________ Lenity comes from Latin lenitas, from lenis, "soft, mild." References 1. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/ 2. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ 3. http://www.nytimes.com/ _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._ You are currently subscribed to Dictionary.com Word of the Day as: matt.motley@enron.com To subscribe to the list by email, send a blank message to: join-WordoftheDay@lists.lexico.com To unsubscribe via email, send a blank message to: leave-wordoftheday-357530C@lists.lexico.com Subscriptions can be turned on and off from the Web at http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/list/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/ (C) 2002 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC.
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