clemence

From Middle English clemence, from Old French clemence, from Latin clēmentia. Doublet of clemency.

• IPA^(key): /ˈklɛməns/

clemence (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of clemency.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     shew that clemence oft, in things amis

• “clemence”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.