different between softheartedness vs clemency

English

softhearted +? -ness

softheartedness (uncountable)

From Latin cl?mentia.

clemency (countable and uncountable, plural clemencies)

The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.
- 2010, Priyamvada Gopal, The Guardian, 4 May 2010:
  A death sentence for Kasab, seen to represent Pakistan, will be widely supported in a frenzy of righteous retribution. Presidential clemency is politically improbable.
(law) A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
(now rare) Mildness of weather.

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