palliation
Example Sentences
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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
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
For them, a shift in that goal, toward palliation, occurs only when the leukemia has proven to be dogged in its resistance to our assaults.
From New York Times
This recognition allows patients to halt toxic treatment, opt for effective palliation and articulate their goals for the end of life.
From The Guardian
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
