palliation

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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

But the world has always brimmed with bad songs, and worse poems, that are born of authentic pain; sincerity of feeling, in art, guarantees nothing but the passing palliation of the feeler.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 1, 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

On the contrary, said Barnard, medicine today is developing methods that offer curative treatment instead of palliation for hundreds of thousands of patients suffering a lingering death.

From Time Magazine Archive

That you happily did not lose on a hand, is no palliation for the bad play of which you may have been guilty.

From Bridge Axioms and Laws by Elwell, J.B. (Joseph Bowne)