What is mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift called?
favor — Mildness or mitigation of punishment; lenity. I could not discover the lenity and fabor of this sentence. Swift. (Webster's 1913.)
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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