lenitive

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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 Howard, Anna Kelsey

When the piles are external, or can be reached, one or two applications of Goulard's extract, with an occasional dose of lenitive electuary, will generally succeed in curing them.

From Enquire Within Upon Everything The Great Victorian Domestic Standby by Anonymous

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 West, John

Thomson's way of dealing with this cause of discontent did not dispose of it for ever, but it at least provided a lenitive.

From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald