The corpus record — Latin

inclemens

inclemens · adj

unmerciful

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Where it lives

Maximus et Balbinus 1 · 3.18/10k
Pro C. Rabirio Perduellionis Reo Ad Quirites 1 · 2.82/10k
de Bello Gothico 1 · 2.48/10k
Panegyricus de sexto consulatu Honorii Augusti 1 · 2.4/10k
Poenulus 2 · 1.81/10k
Rudens 2 · 1.69/10k
de raptu Proserpinae 1 · 1.43/10k
Achilleis 1 · 1.39/10k
Truculentus 1 · 1.22/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Amphitruo 1 · 1.02/10k
Eunuchus 1 · 0.92/10k

Densest 12 of 29 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

in-clēmens — Lewis & Short

in-clēmens, entis, adj.,

I unmerciful, rigorous, harsh, rough, severe (as an adj. perh. not ante-Aug. and very rare; not in Cicero): increpabant inclementem dictatorem, Liv. 8, 32, 13: signifer, Sil. 8, 440: verbo inclementiori appellari, Liv. 9, 34, 23: inclementissimus, Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 10.— Adv.: inclēmenter, rigorously, harshly, roughly, severely: in aliquem dicere, Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 110; id. Ps. 1, 1, 25: loqui alicui, id. Poen. 5, 5, 44: increpantes, Liv. 32, 22, 1: nihil dictum, id. 22, 38, 8: censuit, Plin. 18, 6,7, § 35: si quis est, qui dictum in se inclementius existimabit esse, Ter. Eun. prol. 4: inclementius invehi in aliquem, Liv. 3, 48, 4.

Where it came from

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