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Definition
less strict or more tolerant than might be expected
- The same perplexity will invariably haunt us with regard to natures that tend to feed exclusively upon the Beautiful, let their earthly fate be as lenient as it may.Chapter 9 — Clifford and Phoebe (59% in)
There are no more uses of "lenient" in The House of the Seven Gables.
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