lenitive
Example Sentences
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In the first week of the war the London Times recommended, for blackout nights, a reperusal of such "lenitive" 19th Century giants as Trollope and Dickens.
From Time Magazine Archive
Food and a lenitive were left within their reach, and when able they followed their kinsmen; the alternative is the terrible risk of a wandering life.
From The History of Tasmania , Volume II by John West
It is religion alone which is of universal application, both as a stimulant and a lenitive, throughout the varied heritage which falls to the lot of man.
From The Canadian Elocutionist by Anna Kelsey Howard
I rode to Kensington and procured her a lenitive, with which I returned.
From Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft
Yet see, Sir, the effect of that lenitive, though mixed with these bitter ingredients,—and how this rugged people can express themselves on a measure of concession.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
