LEN'ITIVE, adjective [Latin lenio, to soften.] Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient. LEN'ITIVE, noun 1. A medicine or application that has the quality of easing pain; that which softens or mitigates. 2. A palliative; that which abates passion.
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