Meaning of Lenitive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
2. A laxative.

Equivalents

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.”

“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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