Mildness: alternatives and connections

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adver…

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The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

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Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

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Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate.

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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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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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Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.

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The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

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Alt. of Leniency

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

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The state or quality of being lenient; mildness of temper or disposition; gentleness of treatment; softness; tenderness; clemency; -- opposed to seve…

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.