lenient
81easy — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. comfortable, restful, indolent, unconcerned, untroubled; free, unembarrassed, careless, smooth, unconstrained, natural, graceful; effortless (see facility); mild, gentle, indulgent; tractable,… …
82soft — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. supple, pliant; faint, low; kind, lenient; easy. See softness, faintness, leniency, facility. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Pliable] Syn. malleable, pliant, elastic; see flexible 1 . 2. [Soft to the… …
83indulgent — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. permissive, tolerant, easygoing, fond; see kind , lenient . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. immoderate, extravagant, excessive, *weak, intemperate, pampering, *babying, splurging, lenient, overpermissive. III (Roget s… …
84Bankruptcy Tourism — Moving to a country with more lenient insolvency laws in order to clear one’s debts. Writing for The Times of London, Helen Nugent reported on an increase in the number of foreigners seeking to declare themselves bankrupt in England: Among the… …
85lenity — [len′ətē] n. [OFr lenité < L lenitas < lenis, mild: see LENIENT] 1. the quality or condition of being lenient; mildness; gentleness; mercifulness 2. pl. lenities a lenient act SYN. MERCY …
86mildness — noun 1. good weather with comfortable temperatures • Syn: ↑clemency • Derivationally related forms: ↑clement (for: ↑clemency), ↑mild • Hypernyms: ↑good w …
87AGUNAH — (Heb. עֲגוּנָה; lit. tied, cf. Ruth 1:13), married woman who for whatsoever reason is separated from her husband and cannot remarry, either because she cannot obtain a divorce from him (see divorce ), or because it is unknown whether he is still… …
88BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI — BET HILLEL AND BET SHAMMAI, two schools of exposition of the Oral Law, named after hillel and shammai who lived at the end of the first century B.C.E. and the beginning of the first century C.E. These two schools existed from the time of these… …
89HALAKHAH — DEFINITION The word halakhah (from the root halakh, to go ), the legal side of Judaism (as distinct from aggadah, the name given to the nonlegal material, particularly of the rabbinic literature), embraces personal, social, national, and… …
90ḤUMRA — (Aramaic חֻמְרָא severity or sternness ), a legal term in talmudic and halakhic literature applied to the stricter and more severe of two possible rulings in doubtful cases of ritual law and observance. The opposite of ḥumra is kulla (קֻלָּא),… …