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
The Earth as we now know it resembles a patient whose terminal cancer we can choose to treat either with disfiguring aggression or with palliation and sympathy.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 30, 2015
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
Her training made it difficult for her to understand the palliation of the offense of those who maintained the paradoxes which denied their actions.
From Mr. Claghorn's Daughter by Trent, Hilary
Vocabulary lists containing palliation
Pride and Prejudice
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Novel Study: Pride and Prejudice, Parts 2–3
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Nicholas Nickleby
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