lenitive

• Over the past year, readers unexpectantly encountering Kristol in the otherwise lenitive company of Paul Krugman and Bob Herbert have complained on the correspondence page of various discomforts. —  The American Spectator
• Food and a lenitive were left within their reach, and when able they followed their kinsmen; the alternative is the terrible risk of a wandering life. —  The History of Tasmania , Volume II
• 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. —  The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection
• If he cannot digest a strong-working decoction to eradicate the evil, let him at least take a lenitive to ease it: —  The Essays of Montaigne — Complete
• To cureless grief the lenitive, she sought; —  Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects Printed only as Private Tokens of Regard, for the Particular Friends of the Author

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