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Definition of Palliation
1. Noun. Easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause.
2. Noun. To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
Generic synonyms: Decrease, Diminution, Reduction, Step-down
Derivative terms: Extenuate, Mitigate, Palliate
Definition of Palliation
1. n. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices.
Definition of Palliation
1. Noun. The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Palliation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Palliation
1. 1. The act of palliating, or state of being palliated; extenuation; excuse; as, the palliation of faults, offenses, vices. 2. Mitigation; alleviation, as of a disease. 3. That which cloaks or covers; disguise; also, the state of being covered or disguised. Origin: Cf. F. Palliation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliation
Literary usage of Palliation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... localization as soon as possible, and surgical removal or palliation (decompression)
to save the eyesight or to gain time for a more exact localization. ..."
2. The Law of Insanity in Its Application to the Civil Rights and Capacities by Henry Foster Buswell (1885)
"May be a palliation of Crime. § 450. Although drunkenness, to whatever degree
existing, is never an excuse for, it may in certain cases be a palliation of, ..."
3. Unemployment: A Problem of Industry by William Henry Beveridge Beveridge (1912)
"Better measures of palliation needed. IN the table on p. 18 the last column gives
for each year the unemployed percentage got by averaging the percentages ..."
4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1899)
"I will urge in way of palliation that the house-surgeon and I spent a great deal
of time and care over the case, and that it caused us no little anxiety. ..."
5. War in Disguise, Or, The Frauds of the Neutral Flags by James Stephen (1806)
"the safety of the underwriter's purse, they have ho private right to wave its
application. • Some persons, perhaps, may find an excuse or palliation of this ..."
6. On Diseases Peculiar to Women: Including Displacements of the Uterus by Hugh Lenox Hodge (1868)
"REMOVAL OR palliation OF THE CAUSE. The first indication in the treatment of
irritable uterus is the removal of the cause, ..."
7. Indian Wars of New England by Herbert Milton Sylvester (1910)
"only palliation available to the historian recording these transactions is to
imagine himself surrounded with the perils which menaced the meager population ..."
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