Crossword-Solution: LENIS 5 letters, 14 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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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”

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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
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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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 Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy Jacob Burckhardt 2014
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.
The Golden Dog William Kirby 2001
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.
The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith 2002
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 Essays of Montaigne, Volume 7 Michel de Montaigne 2006
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.
The Essays of Montaigne, Volume 7 Michel de Montaigne 2006
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Used 8 times in crossword archives (1959–2004).