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lenifying

lenifying is the present participle and gerund of lenify.

Meaning of lenify

Verb

lenify (third-person singular simple present lenifies, present participle lenifying, simple past and past participle lenified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To assuage or mitigate; to soften (fever/pain/effects etc.).
    • And it is used for squinancies and inflammations in the throat ; whereby it seemeth to have a mollifying and lenifying virtue1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...

Questions about lenifying

What is lenifying the present participle and gerund of?
Lenifying is the present participle and gerund of lenify.

Words near lenifying in the dictionary

  1. lenients
  2. Lenienza
  3. lenified
  4. lenifies
  5. lenify
  6. lenifying
  7. Lenihan
  8. Lenihans
  9. leniment
  10. leniments
  11. Lenin

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