Practice FrenchC1noun
la mansuétude
leniency, forbearance
« Le tribunal a fait preuve d’une mansuétude que nul n’attendait. »
“The court showed a leniency that no one had expected.”
In other languages
- Spanish indulgencia
- Portuguese indulgência
- German Milde, Nachsicht
- Italian indulgenza, clemenza
- Arabic الرأفة، اللين
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