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lenitive
[ len-i-tiv ]
adjective
- softening, soothing, or mitigating, as medicines or applications.
- mildly laxative.
noun
- a lenitive medicine or application.
- a mild laxative.
- Archaic. anything that softens or soothes.
lenitive
/ ˈlɛnɪtɪv /
adjective
- soothing or alleviating pain or distress
noun
- obsolete.a lenitive drug
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Other Words From
- leni·tive·ly adverb
- leni·tive·ness noun
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lenitive1
C16: from Medieval Latin lēnītīvus, from Latin lēnīre to soothe
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Example Sentences
And in the hospital of the mind, the lenitive and fostering measures have a still larger share in the work of a moral restoration.
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Playing is sometimes an excellent lenitive to calm the mind, and to smother the ardent fire of love.
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Not in a state of lenitive pain, sanative, and in some degree encouraging, but in a condition of incipient mortification.
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