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