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Definition of Alleviatory

1. Adjective. Moderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear.

Definition of Alleviatory

1. a. Alleviative.

Definition of Alleviatory

1. Adjective. alleviative ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alleviatory

Literary usage of Alleviatory

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... a man of real sagacity, as is still evident; who from the first concluded the disease to be desperate; but of course began some alleviatory treatment, ..."

2. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... a man of real sagacity, as is still evident; who from the first concluded the disease to be desperate; but of course began some alleviatory treatment, ..."

3. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"... and a member of several other alleviatory agencies. During the winter of 1908-9 he delivered three lectures on corporate organization before the Harvard ..."

4. American Apprenticeship and Industrial Education by Paul Howard Douglas (1921)
"as an alleviatory measure, can only better the situation to an inappreciable degree. The only effective way to protect the manhood of our youth from being ..."

5. The American Labor Year Book by Dept. of Labor Research, Rand School of Social Science (1918)
"No alleviatory measures such as continuation schools or vocational guidance are sufficient for children of this period. As Mrs. Wooley and Mrs. Fernandez ..."

6. Money and Its Relations to Prices: Being an Inquiry Into the Causes by Langford Lovell Price (1896)
"... paper may be preferable to a more gradual process is that the malady to be overcome has passed beyond the reach of mere alleviatory remedies. ..."

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