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
On no occasion has there been any suggestion of cure, but a good many patients have had very satisfactory palliation .
From Time Magazine Archive
All I can urge in defense or palliation is that I was infatuated by the fatal words of the letter, "You must act what men will call the traitor, but humanity will be the gainer."
From Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd
Vocabulary lists containing palliation
Pride and Prejudice
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