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

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

Of moods they breathe that care disarm, They pledge us lenitive and calm.

From John Marr and Other Poems by Melville, Herman

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

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 James Otis, the pre-revolutionist by Ridpath, John Clark