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Definition of Palliated
1. palliate [v] - See also: palliate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliated
Literary usage of Palliated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"It denounces a lack of moral application of faith, dependent upon a formalizing
of Christianity and palliated by a misuse of Pauline doctrine. ..."
2. Lives of Men of Letters and Science, who Flourished in the Time of George III by Henry Brougham Brougham and Vaux (1845)
"Rousseau's malady was probably of this description ; but weaknesses are to be
palliated, if not pitied, by a view of bodily sufferings such as he certainly ..."
3. Plutarch's Lives by Plutarch, John Langhorne, William Langhorne (1823)
"So much corruption and such a rage of wickedness broke out upon the commonwealth
after his death, which he by proper restraints had palliated,* and kept ..."
4. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"This cruel unfeeling eon«! ut of the father, which not all the impi-udeni cies
and provocations of a licentious po. could justify, has been palliated by his ..."
5. The British Essayists by James Ferguson (1823)
"... endeared by interest, and palliated by all the artifices of self- deceit,
gives us time to form distinctions in our own favour, and reason by degrees ..."
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