Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Plural form of leniency.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word leniencies.

Examples

  • But doing away with the bank's culture of "leniencies" (i.e., looking the other way) might also carry some costs that would be detrimental to the firm in the long run.

    The Fine (And Risky) Line Of Leniency 2010

  • But doing away with the bank's culture of "leniencies" (i.e., looking the other way) might also carry some costs that would be detrimental to the firm in the long run.

    The Fine (And Risky) Line Of Leniency Michel Anteby 2010

  • When such leniencies allow factory workers to become craftspeople or sales clerks to become technical experts, they enable these employees to develop a sense of identity and belonging.

    The Fine (And Risky) Line Of Leniency 2010

  • Select leniencies were, I suspect, part of the sound management practices that contributed to that team's success.

    The Fine (And Risky) Line Of Leniency 2010

  • When such leniencies allow factory workers to become craftspeople or sales clerks to become technical experts, they enable these employees to develop a sense of identity and belonging.

    The Fine (And Risky) Line Of Leniency Michel Anteby 2010

  • Select leniencies were, I suspect, part of the sound management practices that contributed to that team's success.

    The Fine (And Risky) Line Of Leniency Michel Anteby 2010

  • Halakhically, IVF is more complicated than AI but avoids some of its problems and creates leniencies with reference to genetic screening and disposal of defective pre-embryos and unneeded fertilized ova.

    Reproductive Technology, New (NRT). leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • Only a few of the positions legitimize family planning policies and the leniencies have come about as a result of physical dangers to the health of the mother (e.g. after cesarean sections, etc.), mental illness (postpartum depression, nervousness), the potential to abuse children as a result of stress, blindness, lower extremity venous thrombosis, severe weakness and nervousness.

    Contraception. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • The fact that she overlooks rabbinic innovations to a large extent defeats her argument, as she is only relating to tendencies within rabbinic circles as opposed to the direction of change from Bible to Talmud which she describes as one of stringencies to leniencies.

    Female Purity (Niddah) Annotated Bibliography. leBeit Yoreh 2009

  • Although this exemption is counterintuitive, it has given opportunities for poskim to introduce leniencies for women in reference to contraception and abortion.

    Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.