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palliation

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10 lettersPronunciation /pælɪˈeɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aaiillnoptStarts with PEnds with N0 clues
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Definitions

  1. to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

Word origin

Borrowed from Middle French palliation, from Latin palliare (“to cloak; to conceal”), from Latin pallium (“cloak”). By surface analysis, palliate + -ion.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • 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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