cleik, cleek (klek)

[ IMG:content-0570.png:[blocks in formation] in the moderation, the clemency, and the enlarged policy Macaulay, Warren Hastings. Clemency, he [Seneca] says, is an habitual disposition to gentlene in the application of punishments. Lecky, Europ. Morals, I. 199. 2. Softne or mildne , as of the elements: as, the clemency of the weather. These and other things fable they of the Hyper bore i, to which Solinus addeth many other, of the clemencie of the ayre, etc. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 398. =Syn. 1. Mercifulne , indulgence, forgivene , compa ion, tenderne , gentlene .