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What is the noun for clemence?

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clemency
  1. The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
  2. (law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
  3. (now rare) Mildness of weather.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “The death row inmate says that he's reformed and his supporters believe he deserves clemency.”
      “I chose not to point out the negligible cost of such an economic crime to them, but continued to grovel for clemency.”
      “Given these numbers it is clear that clemency was marginal to the criminal justice system.”
inclemency
  1. The quality of being inclement; lack of clemency.
  2. Something that is inclement.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Despite facing financial inclemency, she persevered and built a successful business from the ground up.”
      “The inclemency of his criticism left her feeling shattered and defeated.”
      “There are islands in Antarctica and parts of northern Canada that are uninhabitable due to the inclemency of the weather.”
clemence
  1. (obsolete) clemency
  2. Examples:
    1. Clemence joked that with a provencal like him you could never wash out the oil stains.”
      Clemence related that she had one day eaten three bunches of watercresses at her lunch.”
      “So tall Clemence dressed herself again, grumbling the while.”
inclemencies
  1. plural of inclemency
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Musicians have evolved ways of protecting their voices and their instruments from the inclemencies of air and sun.”
      “Can you bear the inclemencies of the air, both as to cold and heat, in a foreign climate?”
      “The frailest shelter, covered with sea-lion's skins, suffices to keep them from the inclemencies of the weather.”
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