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Word Meanings - LENITIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.

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  • LENITIVE
    Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
  • SOOTH
    soth, AS. s, for san; akin to OS. s, OHG. sand, Icel. sannr, Sw. sann, Dan. sand, Skr. sat, sant, real, genuine, present, being; properly p. pr. from a root meaning, to be, Skr. as, L. esse; also akin to Goth. sunjis true, Gr. satya. Absent, Am,
  • SOOTHNESS
    Truth; reality. Chaucer.
  • LENITIVENESS
    The quality of being lenitive.
  • SOOTHLY
    In truth; truly; really; verily. "Soothly for to say." Chaucer.
  • SOOTHSAY
    1. A true saying; a proverb; a prophecy. Spenser. 2. Omen; portent. Having God turn the same to good soothsay. Spenser.
  • SOOTHINGLY
    In a soothing manner.
  • ALLAY
    to, AS. alecgan; a- + lecgan to lay; but confused with old forms of allege, alloy, alegge. 1. To make quiet or put at rest; to pacify or appease; to quell; to calm; as, to allay popular excitement; to allay the tumult of the passions.
  • SOOTHE
    1. To assent to as true. Testament of Love. 2. To assent to; to comply with; to gratify; to humor by compliance; to please with blandishments or soft words; to flatter. Good, my lord, soothe him, let him take the fellow. Shak. I've tried the
  • SOOTHING
    from Soothe, v.
  • ALLAYMENT
    An allaying; that which allays; mitigation. The like allayment could I give my grief. Shak.
  • ALLAYER
    One who, or that which, allays.
  • DEMULCENT
    Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
  • SOFTEN
    To make soft or more soft. Specifically: -- To render less hard; -- said of matter. Their arrow's point they soften in the flame. Gay. To mollify; to make less fierce or intractable. Diffidence conciliates the proud, and softens the severe. Rambler.
  • SOFTENING
    from Soften, v. Softening of the brain, or Cerebral softening , a localized softening of the brain substance, due to hemorrhage or inflammation. Three varieties, distinguished by their color and representing different stages of the morbid process,
  • SOOTHER
    One who, or that which, soothes.
  • SOOTHSAYER
    A mantis. (more info) 1. One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.
  • SOOTHFAST
    Firmly fixed in, or founded upon, the thruth; true; genuine; real; also, truthful; faithful. -- Sooth"fast`ness, n. "In very soothfastness." Chaucer. Why do not you . . . bear leal and soothfast evidence in her behalf, as ye may with
  • SOOTHSAYING
    1. A true saying; truth. 2. The act of one who soothsays; the foretelling of events; the art or practice of making predictions. A damsel, possessed with a spirit of divination . . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. Acts xvi.
  • FORSOOTH
    In truth; in fact; certainly; very well; -- formerly used as an expression of deference or respect, especially to woman; now used ironically or contemptuously. A fit man, forsooth, to govern a realm! Hayward. Our old English word forsooth has been
  • SPLENITIVE
    Splenetic. Shak. Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash. T. N. Page.
  • INSOOTH
    In sooth; truly.

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