different between clement vs forgiveness

English

Etymology

From Old French, from Latin cl?m?ns.

Adjective

clement (comparative more clement, superlative most clement)

1. Lenient or merciful; charitable.
   • a 1891, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, published 1924, London: Constable & Co., Chapter 18, [1]

     Your clement sentence they would account pusillanimous.

2. Mild (said of weather and similar circumstances).
   • 1984, Edna O'Brien, "The Bachelor" in A Fanatic Heart, New York: Plume, p. 66,

     The weather is clement, though there was a downpour yesterday and I was obliged to take precautions.

   • 1992, A. B. Yehoshua, Mr. Mani, translated by Hillel Halkin, New York: Doubleday, pp. 314-5,

     The earth was still dry and the air was perfectly clement.

Antonyms

• inclement

Related terms

• clemency

Translations

References

Romanian

Etymology

From French clément, from Latin clemens.

Adjective

clement m or n (feminine singular clement?, masculine plural clemen?i, feminine and neuter plural clemente)

1. clement

Declension

English

Etymology

From Middle English forgiveness, forgifnes, from Old English for?ifnes, for?iefnes, for?iefennes (“forgiveness, remission, indulgence, permission”, literally “forgivenness”), equivalent to forgiven +? -ness. Cognate with Dutch vergiffenis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /f????vn?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /f????vn?s/
• Hyphenation: for?give?ness

Noun

forgiveness (usually uncountable, plural forgivenesses)

1. The action of forgiving.
   • 1931, Mahatma Gandhi, Young India

     The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

2. Readiness to forgive.

Synonyms

• (action of forgiving): remission
• (readiness to forgive): mercy

Translations

References

• forgiveness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.