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semperlenity

UK/ˌsɛmpəˈlɛnɪtɪ/

semperlenity noun: unfaltering leniency; unvarying gentleness deriving from habituated or constitutional disposition.

Noun

semperlenity (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, rare) Unfaltering leniency; unvarying gentleness deriving from habituated or constitutional disposition.
    • […] bility and Semperlenity, and Dead Calmneſs of Temper, or Want of Anger in the Subject?1740–6: William Master, A.M., The Ministerial Duty Set Forth: In an Anniversary Sermon Preached before the University of Oxford, on the Last Sunday in June, 1740, page 33
    • If, when convinced itself of the truth and rectitude of this profession and mode, it suffer the teachers of those who dissentᵃ from them to neglect such parts of the former as do not seem strictly essential to the being of Christianity, and to frame a form of worship, or to reject all forms as they...1772?: George Horne [aut.] and Vaughan Thomas [ed.], A Letter to the Right Hon. the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, pages 4–5

Origin of semperlenity

From semper- + lenity.

Questions about semperlenity

What does semperlenity mean?
Semperlenity means unfaltering leniency; unvarying gentleness deriving from habituated or constitutional disposition.
What part of speech is semperlenity?
Semperlenity is a noun.
How do you pronounce semperlenity?
Semperlenity is pronounced /ˌsɛmpəˈlɛnɪtɪ/ (UK).

Words near semperlenity in the dictionary

  1. semper-vivens
  2. semperannual
  3. sempergreen
  4. semperidentical
  5. semperjuvenescent
  6. semperlenity
  7. sempervirent
  8. sempervirid
  9. sempervive
  10. sempervives
  11. sempervivum

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