lenify

verb /ˈliːnɪfaɪ/

1. To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).

   obsolete, transitive

   And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue

Where it comes from

From Latin lēnis (“soft, mild”) + -ify. Compare French lénifier. See lenition.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry lenify (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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