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

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

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

Extenuā′tion, act of representing anything as less wrong or criminal than it is: palliation: mitigation.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various