Palliation

Word PALLIATION
Character 10
Hyphenation pal li a tion
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The word "palliation" in example sentences

"I am glad to hear you say so," said Cap. "Miss Black, please hear this in palliation – I would not presume to say in defense – of my conduct: I was driven to frenzy by a passion of contending love and jealousy as violent and maddening as it was unreal and transient. ❋ Unknown (1888)

It is true that he afterwards composed an elaborate apology for his people in the form of a history in twenty volumes, which may be considered as a kind of palliation for the evil he had done them in action. ❋ Norman Bentwich (1927)

"If you have a terminal diagnosis, you are a hospice candidate, you have an incurable disease that required palliation, meaning the relieving of symptoms, I think we need as many tools in that scenario as we can have," Dr. Miller added. ❋ Unknown (2009)

This study shows that physicians who behave as though more is better and aggressive treatment is preferable to palliation and watchful waiting may impose needless suffering on black patients in their final days. ❋ Barbara Coombs Lee (2010)

In light of these events, lest we feel too guilty for plunging our readers down the slippery slope of disillusionment into a gaping abyss of continual despair from our ideologically harrowing subject matter, we would like to offer for your personal palliation the following token of our support. ❋ Unknown (2010)

No hand wringing, little wrangling -- just a realization that suffering requires palliation regardless of where in the world it is happening. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Its palliation is a daily task, its cure a fervent hope. ❋ Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)

However, as people choose to control their own deaths and the legal system increasingly accepts these choices, as is already the case in Oregon, Washington and Montana, one can expect these palliation-only organizations to align themselves ever more closely with a "nursing home-industrial complex" that stands to lose billions of dollars if people choose to die on their own terms. ❋ Unknown (2009)

As long as no Montana doctors are willing to prescribe lethal medication to patients in need, any "right" to die will offer little palliation for the ravages of terminal illness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Cecilia, superior to accepting a palliation of which she felt herself undeserving, now lifted up her head, and forcing herself to speak, said ❋ Unknown (2008)

I shall not soon return; that, at least, is certain, and, for a few instants delay, may surely offer some palliation; — See! if I am not ready to again accuse you of severity! — ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even with this palliation, when the nuns put on this chemise on the 14th of September, they suffer from fever for three or four days. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Good and evil are much more equally divided in this world than you are yet aware: none possess the first without alloy, nor the second without palliation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

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