lenitive

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11
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8

Definition of lenitive

5 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
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adj

  1. Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
  2. Laxative; easing the bowels.
  3. Mild; gentle.

noun

  1. An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
    “It is now full time to free him from all these necessities, and to apply cordials and lenitives, after those severities which have already had their full course against him.”
    “Upon the whole, as the author seems to share all the common miseries of life, he appears to partake likewise of its lenitives and abatements.”
    “Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease.”
  2. A laxative.

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Etymology

From Late Latin lenitivus, from Latin lenitus.

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