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

I rode to Kensington and procured her a lenitive, with which I returned.

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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

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

Had he at the same time given me a tea-spoon, it would not have been so improper; for the poison might have been made up as a lenitive electuary.

From The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various