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

And in the hospital of the mind, the lenitive and fostering measures have a still larger share in the work of a moral restoration.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various

She was immediately blooded, took the oily Draughts three Times a-Day, the decoctum furfuris for common Drink, and so much lenitive Electuary as procured her a Stool next Day.

From An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Monro, Donald

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

Is the contemplation of their own history and respect for their own traditions the lenitive he prescribes for a people whose only history is a revolution, whose only tradition is rebellion?

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858 by Various