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 Thomas Holcroft
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 Anna Kelsey Howard
Of moods they breathe that care disarm, They pledge us lenitive and calm.
From John Marr and Other Poems by Herman Melville
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 John Clark Ridpath
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