Clemency
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William Hupy
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Clemency
Disposition to be merciful. From Latin, clemencia, for calmness. However, the PIE root, klei, means to lean. How this evolved is anyone’s guess.
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Re: Clemency
From what I gather, the path is from the idea of being 'inclined' to something. Being inclined is a positive sense, with disinclined the negative. Inclined to be gentle or forgiving, with a few alterations in spelling and pronunciation along the way, can be seen as leading to clemency.
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What struck me in my meanderings was the discovery that clinic is part of this family, too. At one time, a clinic was someone who was bedridden, attended by a clinic, a doctor who makes house-calls.
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