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Lenient

Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.

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Clement 84% connected

Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

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Clement 84% connected

Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

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Permissive 84% connected

Permitting; granting leave or liberty.

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Permissive 84% connected

Permitting; granting leave or liberty.

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Lenience 74% connected

Alt. of Leniency

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Lenience 74% connected

Alt. of Leniency

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Leniency 74% connected

The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.

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Leniency 74% connected

The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.

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Easy 92% connected

At ease; free from pain, trouble, or constraint

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Indulgent 92% connected

Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favo…

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Soft 92% connected

Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Billion noun · 78% connection

the number that is represented as a one followed by 12 zeros; in the United Kingdom the usage followed in the United States is frequen…

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Dactyl noun · 78% connection

A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/…

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Demulcent adjective · 78% connection

Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.

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Emollient adjective · 78% connection

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient.

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Emollition noun · 78% connection

The act of softening or relaxing; relaxation.

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Emulsive adjective · 78% connection

Softening; milklike.

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Epilepsia major noun · 78% connection

epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking

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Fomentation noun · 78% connection

The act of fomenting; the application of warm, soft, medicinal substances, as for the purpose of easing pain, by relaxing the skin, or…

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Gastromalacia noun · 78% connection

A softening of the coats of the stomach; -- usually a post-morten change.

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Generalized epilepsy noun · 78% connection

epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking

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Giving noun · 78% connection

The act of softening, breaking, or yielding.

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Grand mal noun · 78% connection

epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking

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Grand mal epilepsy noun · 78% connection

epilepsy in which the attacks involve loss of consciousness and tonic spasms of the musculature followed by generalized jerking

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Heavy syllable noun · 78% connection

a syllable with a branching nucleus or a branching rime.; "A heavy syllable consists of a long vowel or a diphthong, or a short vowel…

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Iambic adjective · 78% connection

Consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented; as, an iambic foot.

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Iambus noun · 78% connection

A foot consisting of a short syllable followed by a long one, as in /mans, or of an unaccented syllable followed by an accented one, a…

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Inteneration noun · 78% connection

The act or process of intenerating, or the state of being intenerated; softening.

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Keratomalacia noun · 78% connection

softening and drying and ulceration of the cornea resulting from vitamin A deficiency; symptom of cystic fibrosis or sprue

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