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lenitive

adjective

[L. lenio, to soften.]

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

lenitive

noun
A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain; that which softens or mitigates.

lenitive

A palliative; that which abates passion.