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comparative more lenitive, superlative most lenitive
Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering. examples
Laxative; easing the bowels. examples
(of a person) Mild; gentle. examples
plural lenitives
An analgesic or other source of relief from pain quotations examples
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.
1688, David Hume, The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol. I, Part E
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.
1825, Samuel Johnson, The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes
Their pain soft arts of pharmacy can ease, Thy breast alone no lenitives appease.
1899, Alexander Pope, The Iliad of Homer
A laxative. examples