palliate
Origin of palliate
1Other words from palliate
- pal·li·a·tion [pal-ee-ey-shuhn], /ˌpæl iˈeɪ ʃən/, noun
- pal·li·a·tor, noun
- un·pal·li·at·ed, adjective
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How to use palliate in a sentence
Critics of Functional Medicine claim that they too are interested in curing, not palliating disease.
Every one knows that in common society palliating names are given to vices.
In the time of Frontenac there was a palliating motive for such barbarous warfare.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I | Francis ParkmanThe boy obeyed the command and told his story honestly, without concealing or palliating anything that had occurred.
The Burgomaster's Wife, Complete | Georg EbersDr. Farrar allows no palliating plea for the cursing Psalms.
The Book Of God | G. W. Foote
It is directed to the palliating circumstances in the actual state of slavery, not to a broad defence of slavery itself.
The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings | John Abercrombie
British Dictionary definitions for palliate
/ (ˈpælɪˌeɪt) /
to lessen the severity of (pain, disease, etc) without curing or removing; alleviate; mitigate
to cause (an offence) to seem less serious by concealing evidence; extenuate
Origin of palliate
1Derived forms of palliate
- palliation, noun
- palliator, noun
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