Crossword-Solution: LENITIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lenitive | a. | Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient. |
| Lenitive | n. | A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain or protecting from the action of irritants. |
| Lenitive | n. | A mild purgative; a laxative. |
| Lenitive | n. | That which softens or mitigates; that which tends to allay passion, excitement, or pain; a palliative. |
We have 10 clues for the answer “LENITIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| remedy that eases pain and discomfort | 1 answer |
| Mitigating | 4 answers |
| disarming | 12 answers |
| ASSUASIVE | 26 answers |
| Emollient | 27 answers |
| anodyne | 32 answers |
| remedial | 56 answers |
| bland | 56 answers |
| Balm | 66 answers |
| soothing | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AEETR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with LENITIVE (5)
Lenitive Electuary (Compound Confection of Senna) is another excellent aperient for the young, it being mild in its operation, and pleasant to take; a child fancying it is nothing more than jam, and which it much resembles both in appearance and in taste.
When the piles are external, or can be reached, one or two applications of Goulard's extract, with an occasional dose of lenitive electuary, will generally succeed in curing them.
For, a little imprudently, I must say, Governor Bernard mixed in the administration of the lenitive of the repeal no small acrimony arising from matters of a separate nature.
Yet see, Sir, the effect of that lenitive, though mixed with these bitter ingredients,--and how this rugged people can express themselves on a measure of concession.
Had he at the same time given me a tea-spoon, it would not have been so improper; for the poison might have been made up as a lenitive electuary.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1972).