Lenitive [adjective]

Definition of Lenitive:

gentle, temperate, nonirritating

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Sentence/Example of Lenitive:

And in the hospital of the mind, the lenitive and fostering measures have a still larger share in the work of a moral restoration.

Playing is sometimes an excellent lenitive to calm the mind, and to smother the ardent fire of love.

Not in a state of lenitive pain, sanative, and in some degree encouraging, but in a condition of incipient mortification.