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Meanings of lenitive in English

Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.

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        Usage of lenitive in English
        1
        True, some of us had had a go at being lenitive.
        Kalooki Nights
        2
        I rode to Kensington and procured her a lenitive, with which I returned.
        Anna St. Ives
        3
        Playing is sometimes an excellent lenitive to calm the mind, and to smother the ardent fire of love.
        The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
        4
        If he cannot digest a strong-working decoction to eradicate the evil, let him at least take a lenitive to ease it:
        Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Volume 07
        5
        He did the strange thing of touching my arm lightly, a lenitive gesture, his unseen hand coming out of the darkness.
        The Last Ship
        Lenitive through the time