Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for LEN'I-TIVE
LEN'I-TIVE, a. [It. lenitivo; Fr. lenitif; from L. lenio, to soften.]
Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient. – Bacon. Arbuthnot.
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