clemency
C1CEFR level
55/100Rarity: uncommon
FormalRegister
General noun
Mercy or leniency shown to an offender or enemy in one's power.
The governor granted clemency, commuting the sentence to life imprisonment.
Law noun
Mercy or leniency shown by an authority in reducing the severity of a punishment.
His lawyers petitioned the governor for clemency in view of his terminal illness.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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