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lenitude rare.|ˈlɛnɪtjuːd| [ad. L. lēnitūdo, f. lēnis soft, mild.] †a. In a material sense: Smoothness. Obs. b. = lenity (in the first quot. perh. misused for lentitude).
1627W. Sclater Exp. 2 Thess. (1629) 269 Lenitude, rather than lenity of Magistrates. 1656Blount Glossogr., Lenitude, the same [as Lenity]. 1657Tomlinson Renou's Disp. 34 Some [purge] by lenitude as viscid..medicaments. |