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Definition of Lenitives
1. lenitive [n] - See also: lenitive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lenitives
Literary usage of Lenitives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... sometimes persuading, sometimes terrifying ; and accordingly addressing himself
to the afflicted and desponding with gospel lenitives, and to tb? ..."