English

Noun

panacaea ‎(plural panacaeas)

1. Alternative form of panacea
   • 1989, Philippe Hugon & Caroline Farrugia, The Informal Sector: Women and Development Planning in Africa:

     In a context of financial constraint, faced with the inefficiency of large organizations, the failure of large projects and white elephants, some see in this sector a panacaea or an alternative development model, the image of the success of the market against the State or the beauty of the small.

   • 2012, Richard Smyth, Bum Fodder: An Absorbing History of Toilet Paper, ISBN 0285641204:

     In fact, the claims made by many early manufacturers went beyond mere comfort; they essentially promised to be panacaeas for all your rear-end afflictions.

   • 2013, Chandra Lekha Sriram, Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability, ISBN 1134197233:

     I find that while the move towards global justice is in many ways heartening, we ought not believe that it is a panacaea.

   • 2014, Richard Rader, Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus: Written in the Cosmos, ISBN 1317633881:

     The recapitulation of the developments at Aulis is momentarily interrupted, at the point of Agamemnon's hopeless decision, to evoke a false picture of security in Zeus, and to underscore the enigma of the universal order, while at the same time holding out such make-believe panacaeas as sophrosyne and the like.