palliation

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Marcus’s father was offered hospice care, a form of palliation that is generally reserved for people with a life expectancy of six months or less, who are no longer pursuing “curative” treatments.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 18, 2019

Bunting himself looked down on annotations: “Notes are a confession of failure, not a palliation of it,” he wrote, introducing the few notes to his 1968 “Collected Poems.”

From The New Yorker • Aug. 2, 2016

More than four in 10 Americans now meet their end in hospice care, drawn by its promise of palliation and pain alleviation instead of extreme measures in their waning days.

From BusinessWeek • Jul. 22, 2011

For the aficionados of the working and middle classes, it is art, poetry, music, the sole palliation of the boredom of the office and workbench.

From Time Magazine Archive

To offer any palliation of such monstrous atrocities would only be an insult to the understandings of all unprejudiced observers of royalty!

From Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume II (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Lady Anne