Lenity and Retaliation

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Lenity noun - Kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it.

Usage example: a social critic who argues that judicial lenity is chiefly to blame for the increased criminality that plagues us

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Retaliation is an antonym for lenity.

Retaliation noun - The act or an instance of responding to an injury with an injury.

Usage example: police believe that the murder was in retaliation for an earlier gangland execution

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Lenity is an antonym for retaliation.

Nearby Words: retaliate, retaliatory, retaliated, retaliating

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