The Collaborative International Dictionary
Clemence \Clem"ence\, n.
Clemency. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) clemency
Wikipedia
Clemence, or Clémence, is a name. It may refer to:
- Louise Michel (1830-1905), a French anarchist who used Clémence as a pseudonym
As a given name it may refer to:
- Clémence d'Aquitaine (1060–1142)
- Clemence of Austria (1262–1293 or 1295)
- Clemence of Hungary, queen of France and Navarre
- Clemence B. Horrall (1895–1960), Los Angeles Police Chief
- Clémence Beikes, French basketball player
- Clémence Calvin, French runner
- Clemence Dane, English novelist and playwright
- Clémence Desrochers, Canadian performer
- Clémence de Grandval (1828–1907), French composer
- Clémence Grimal, French snowboarder
- Clemence Housman, English women's rights activist
- Clémence Isaure, mythic patron of Toulousain poetry
- Clémence Matutu, Congolese handball player
- Clémence Ollivier, French rugby union player
- Clémence Poésy, French actress and model
- Clémence Ross-van Dorp, Dutch politician
- Clémence Saint-Preux, French singer
- Clemence Sophia Harned Lozier, American physician
As a family name it may refer to:
- Chris Clemence (1986–), bassist of the band RapScallions
- George H. Clemence, American architect
- Gerald Maurice Clemence (1908–1974), American astronomer
- Ray Clemence (1948–), English football goalkeeper
- Sacha Clémence, English footballer
- Stephen Clemence, English footballer
Usage examples of "clemence".
But as for why it was not stated a month or so ago, by the mouth of Peter Clemence returning… Simple enough!
The last he can discover of Peter Clemence is that he stayed the night of the eighth day of September with a household to which he’s a distant cousin on the wife’s side.
Yes, Meriet himself had stabled the guest’s horse, and groomed, watered and fed him, while the women had made Master Clemence welcome within.
Peter Clemence had come and gone in good health, well-mounted, and with the protection of the bishop of Winchester’s formidable name about him.
But I doubt, truly I doubt, if even a bone of Peter Clemence will ever be seen again.
Well, use your eyes and your wits at Aspley for your lad—I can tell by now when you have a wing spread over a fledgling—but bring me back whatever you can glean about Peter Clemence, too, and what he had in mind when he left them and rode north.
Peter Clemence had done so, choosing to call upon his kinsfolk when the chance offered, rather than make for the safe haven of Shrewsbury abbey.
Peter Clemence must have been met with ceremony on the threshold when he arrived unexpectedly.
And Meriet—I know he was with us when Master Clemence left, but after that I didn’t see him until late in the afternoon.
He may have nothing to do with Meriet, with Peter Clemence or with the horse straying in the mosses.
He knew—quite certainly he knew—that Peter Clemence was dead, but just as certainly he did not know what had been done with the body.
Whoever had decreed that disposal of Peter Clemence had put it clean out of consideration that his death could be the work of common footpads and thieves.
For what can you have had against Master Clemence to warrant his death?
But it does not give us our answer to who killed Peter Clemence, for it’s as good as certain Meriet did not.
I cannot for my life see what cause anyone in these parts, Aspley or Linde or Foriet or who you will, had to wish Peter Clemence out of the world.