Usually means: Soothing, alleviating pain or harshness.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word lenitive:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. lenitive: Merriam-Webster
  2. lenitive: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lenitive: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lenitive: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lenitive: Vocabulary.com
  6. lenitive: Wordnik
  7. lenitive: Wiktionary
  8. lenitive: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lenitive: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. lenitive: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. lenitive: Dictionary.com
  12. Lenitive: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. lenitive: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. lenitive: Rhymezone
  15. Lenitive: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. lenitive: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. lenitive: FreeDictionary.org
  18. lenitive: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. lenitive: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lenitive: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenitive: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenitive: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lenitive: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. lenitive: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenitive, lenitive: A Word A Day

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lenitive)

adjective:  Analgesic, able to reduce pain or suffering.
adjective:  Laxative; easing the bowels.
adjective:  (of a person) Mild; gentle.
noun:  An analgesic or other source of relief from pain
noun:  A laxative.

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