semperlenity
/ˌsɛmpəˈlɛnɪtɪ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Unfaltering leniency; unvarying gentleness deriving from habituated or constitutional disposition.
Archaic; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[…] bility and Semperlenity, and Dead Calmneſs of Temper, or Want of Anger in the Subject?"
- "If, when convinced itself of the truth and rectitude of this profession and mode, it suffer the teachers of those who dissentᵃ from them to neglect such parts of the former as do not seem strictly essential to the being of Christianity, and to frame a form of worship, or to reject all forms as they think fit, it acts with a moderation that ought to satisfy, and even gratify, the recusants. But if it extend its indulgence so far as to suffer its Articles of Religion and its form of worship to be unreservedly vilified, and treated, daily and hourly, with the grossest abuses, and even charged with blasphemy; and such doctrines to be openly avowed as, according to its own faith, are no better than downright blasphemies; it then exceeds the bounds of moderation, and falls into that extreme of semperlenity^✸ and unconcern for the honour of our God and Saviour, which forebode the downfal of that Religion, which it has, on the most convincing reasons, espoused."
Etymology
From semper- + lenity.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: semper
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /ˌsɛmpəˈlɛnɪtɪ/