palliation
- n easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
- n to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- Whatever Stephens' achievements before the Civil War or after, "there can be no palliation of his role in the collapse of the Confederacy.
- Murray said: "On no occasion has there been any suggestion of cure, but a good many patients have had very satisfactory palliation .
- What the replies would allege in self-justification or palliation was anybody's guess, and guess everybody did.