0 treatment in which someone is punished or judged less strongly or severely than would be expected:
His decision brought widespread criticism for undue leniency.
His victims were disappointed with the leniency of the sentence.
Much leniency, however, was less visible to the public.
In these cases, the judges showed no such leniency to female defendants or their male lovers.
As events were to show, this leniency on the part of the authorities was distinctly premature.
Neither did analysis of court sentencing point conclusively to preferential treatment of women over men, though there were some indications of greater leniency.
Indeed, it provides a foil for the species of leniency which raku seems to embody.
