Palliative
['pælɪətɪv] or ['pælɪ'etɪv]
Definition
(a.) Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
(n.) That which palliates; a palliative agent.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Lenitive.
Checker: Sylvia
Examples
- The palliative measures we may pass by quickly. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- My own imperfect health has induced me to give some attention to those palliative resources which the divine mercy has placed within our reach. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- No ameliorative, no palliative, no restrictive, no remedial measure will avail. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If her auditress ventured now and then to put in a palliative word she set it aside with a certain disdain. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The one effectual palliative in my case, is--opium. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If you have any sorrow or disappointment--and, perhaps, you have--nay, I _know_ you have--seek your own palliatives, in your own chosen resources. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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