clemency

noun3

1. •
   The gentle or kind exercise of power; leniency, mercy; compassion in judging or punishing.

   • For vs, and for our Tragedie, / Heere stooping to your Clemencie: / We begge your hearing Patientlie. — 1599
2. •
   A pardon, commutation, or similar reduction, removal, or postponement of legal penalties by an executive officer of a state.
3. •
   (no longer used) Mildness of weather.

   • It rained still, and blew; but with more clemency, I thought, than it had poured and raged all day. — 1853