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lenitive

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8 lettersPart of speech adjective, nounSorted eeiilntvStarts with LEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear

Word origin

From Latin lēnīt(us) (“softened”) + -ive, from lēniō (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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