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Palliation

noun

Easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause.

To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious. Synonyms: extenuation, mitigation.

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"Palliation" Quotes from Famous Books

... been a madman to-night, Miss Langdon, and I know it," he told her rapidly. "There is no excuse for the acts I have committed; there can be no palliation for them. I would not have dared to ask for your forgiveness; I can only say that I am sorry. It was not I, but a madman, who for a moment possessed me, who conducted himself so vilely toward you. ...

— The Last Woman • Ross Beeckman

... to an end. And how can an author do better than to quote Ibn Khallikan's own concluding words, which, though written so long ago about a biographical dictionary, may be borrowed by all literary hands as palliation for whatever shortcomings their work may have?—"If any well-informed person remark, in examining this book, that it contains faults, he should not hasten to blame me, for I always aimed at being exact, as far as I could judge; and, besides, God has allowed no book ...

— A Boswell of Baghdad - With Diversions • E. V. Lucas

... would have politely excused us to him, but Colville would have no palliation of our political and moral nakedness; and he framed a continuation of the letter he began on the Ponte Vecchio to the Post-Democrat-Republican, in which he made a bitterly ironical comparison of the achievements of Italy and America in the ...

— Indian Summer • William D. Howells

Words linked to "Palliation" : easing, step-down, easement, mitigation, alleviation, relief, extenuation, decrease, reduction, palliate, diminution