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

There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which Nature holds out to us: so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep; and the first word which roused me was Amiens.

From A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Sterne, Laurence

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

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

The young victim of the wisdom of Solomon was boarded with the parish minister, in whose kindness he found a lenitive for the scholastic discipline he underwent.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 by Various