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

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

Keep the body open by two evacuations daily, if possible without medicine, if not take the size of a nutmeg of lenitive electuary occasionally, or five grains of rhubarb every night.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

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

From Anna St. Ives by Holcroft, Thomas

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