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Webster 1913 Edition
Palliation
Palˊli-a′tion
,Noun.
[Cf. F.
palliation
.] 1.
The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse;
as, the
. palliation
of faults, offenses, vices2.
Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease.
Bacon.
3.
That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised.
[Obs.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Palliation
PALLIA'TION
,Noun.
1.
Mitigation; alleviation; abatement; as of a disease.Definition 2025
palliation
palliation
English
Noun
palliation (plural palliations)
- The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief.
- 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
- The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
- 1985, Anthony Burgess, The Kingdom of the Wicked
- Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure.
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