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
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
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
After that, it will be convenient to prepare the body by some Julep or Apozeme, or to give some lenitive medicine to free the first region of the body from excrements.
From Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain by James Rutherford
For my own part, in expectation of that fatal period when moderation and indulgence should take place, I instantly quitted a country where severity was not softened by any lenitive, and embarked for Spain.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
