different between constitutional vs semperlenity

English

Etymology

From constitution +? -al (suffix meaning ‘of or pertaining to’ forming adjectives). Constitution is derived from Middle English constitucioun, constitucion (“edict, law, ordinance, regulation, rule, statute; body of laws or rules, or customs; body of fundamental principles; principle or rule (of science); creation”) from Old French constitucion (modern French constitution), a learned borrowing from Latin c?nstit?ti?, c?nstit?ti?nem (“character, constitution, disposition, nature; definition; point in dispute; order, regulation; arrangement, system”), from c?nstitu? (“to establish, set up; to confirm; to decide, resolve”) (from con- (prefix indicating a being or bringing together of several objects) + statu? (“to set up, station; to establish; to determine, fix”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steh?- (“to stand (up)”))) + -ti? (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or the results of actions), -ti?nem (accusative singular of -ti?).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nst??tju??(?)n(?)l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nst??t(j)u?(?)n(?)l/, /-st?-/
• Hyphenation: con?sti?tu?tion?al

Adjective

constitutional (comparative more constitutional, superlative most constitutional)

1. Belonging to, or inherent in, the constitution or structure of one's body or mind.

2. For the benefit of one's constitution or health.

3. Relating to the constitution or composition of something; essential, fundamental.
4. (law)
   1. Relating to a legal or political constitution (“the basic law of a nation or institution; the formal or informal system of primary principles and laws that regulates a government or other institution”).
   2. In compliance with or valid under a legal or political constitution.

      Antonyms: anticonstitutional, nonconstitutional, unconstitutional

   3. (also politics) Of a monarch: having a purely ceremonial role, or possessing powers limited by a constitution rather than plenary or unlimited powers.

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Noun

constitutional (plural constitutionals)

1. A walk that is taken regularly for good health and wellbeing.

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Further reading

• constitution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• constitution (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology

semper- +? lenity

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s?m'p?l??n?t?, IPA^(key): /?s?mp??l?n?t?/

Noun

semperlenity (uncountable)

1. (archaic, rare) Unfaltering leniency; unvarying gentleness deriving from habituated or constitutional disposition.
   • 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

     […] bility and Semperlenity, and Dead Calmne?s of Temper, or Want of Anger in the Subject?

   • 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

     If, when convinced itself of the truth and rectitude of this profession and mode, it suffer the teachers of those who dissent^a 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 think fit, it acts with a moderation that ought to satisfy, and even gratify, the recusants. But if it extend its indulgence so far as to suffer its Articles of Religion and its form of worship to be unreservedly vilified, and treated, daily and hourly, with the grossest abuses, and even charged with blasphemy; and such doctrines to be openly avowed as, according to its own faith, are no better than downright blasphemies; it then exceeds the bounds of moderation, and falls into that extreme of semperlenity^? and unconcern for the honour of our God and Saviour, which forebode the downfal of that Religion, which it has, on the most convincing reasons, espoused.

References

• The English Dictionarie, or, An Interpreter of Hard English Words by Henry Cockeram (1623), volume II
  Accustomed Gentlenesse, Semperlenity.
• “semper-lenity” defined as a derived term of the prefix “?semper-”, listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]