Crossword-Solution: LENIS
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LENIS | anagram | ELSIN, ILSNE, INSEL, LIENS, LINES, NEILS, NELIS, NIELS, NILES, SILEN, SLINE |
We have 14 clues for the answer “LENIS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Opp. of fortis | 1 answer |
| Opposite of "fortis" | 1 answer |
| Opposite of fortis, in phonetics | 1 answer |
| SMOOTH speech sound | 1 answer |
| Soft speech sound. | 1 answer |
| Weakly articulated speech sounds. | 1 answer |
| Weakly pronounced consonant, in phonetics | 1 answer |
| pronounced with little muscular tension | 1 answer |
| Smooth breathing | 2 answers |
| Soft, as a sound | 2 answers |
| A CONSONANT PRONOUNCED WITH ASPIRATION | 10 answers |
| CRY WEAKLY OR SOFTLY | 10 answers |
| Aqua fortis | 12 answers |
| Speech sound | 33 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
AEMZEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with LENIS (5)
Illud certe molestum est, dum alienis verbis sententiisque scripta infarcit et explet sua; ex quo nascitur maxime vitiosum scribendi genus, quum modo lenis et candidus, modo durus et asper apparcat, et sic in toto genere tanquam in unum agrum plura inter se inimicissima sparsa semina.’ All are not treated with so much detail; most are disposed of in a few brief sentences; some are merely named without a word being added.
The fire kindled, and she presently burst out with the voice of a seraph in that glorious psalm, the 116th: “'Toto pectore diligam Unice et Dominum colam, Qui lenis mihi supplici Non duram appulit aurem.
But although the inscription contains more than one phrase of felicitous discrimination, notably the oft-quoted _affectuum potens, at lenis dominator_, it may be doubted whether the simpler words used by his rugged old friend in a letter to Langton are not a fitter farewell to Oliver Goldsmith,—‘Let not his frailties be remembered; he was a very great man.’ In person Goldsmith was short and strongly built.
Demosthenes' companions in the embassy to Philip, extolling that prince as handsome, eloquent, and a stout drinker, Demosthenes said that those were commendations more proper for a woman, an advocate, or a sponge, than for a king': "Imperet bellante prior, jacentem Lenis in hostem." ["In the fight, overthrow your enemy, but be merciful to him when fallen.--"Horace, Carm.
The historian Suetonius was satisfied with only the meaning of his name, which made him cashier his father's surname, Lenis, to leave Tranquillus successor to the reputation of his writings.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2004).