Definition of Palliations

1. Noun. (plural of palliation) ¹

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Definition of Palliations

1. palliation [n] - See also: palliation

Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliations

pallettes
pallia
pallial
palliament
palliaments
palliard
palliards
palliate
palliated
palliates
palliating
palliation
palliations (current term)
palliative
palliative care
palliative care physician
palliative therapy
palliative treatment
palliatively
palliatives
palliator
palliators
palliatory
pallid
pallid bat
pallidal
pallidal syndrome

Literary usage of Palliations

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

1. Foreign Reminiscences by Henry Richard Vassall Holland (1851)
"... his mistakes can not be ascribed to that ignorance and prejudice which are so often but so strangely urged as palliations of the crimes of royalty. ..."

2. Gregory the Great by James Barmby (1892)
"... on this occasion—Its result—Former letters in praise of Mauricius —palliations—Suffering from gout—Last letter to Theo- delinda—Death and burial—Conduct ..."

3. Gregory the Great by James Barmby (1892)
"... on this occasion—Its result—Former letters in praise of Mauritius —palliations—Suffering from gout—Last letter to Theo- delinda—Death and burial—Conduct ..."

4. Letters of Eminent Persons, Addressed to David Hume by John Hill Burton (1849)
"... of a letter from Hume by Franklin — The quarrel with Rousseau — palliations of his conduct—Hume's forbearance—Speaks of Hume's intention to visit him at ..."

5. The Novelist's Magazine (1782)
"... on one fide of the (ion, you are yet candid enough on the other to aim at no palliations. ... palliations ..."

6. Antigua and the Antiguans: a Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants by Flannigan, Mrs Lanaghan (1844)
"Negroes: palliations, but not excuses, for former cruelties—A harsh planter—Crimes of slaves—The little negroes' dinner-hour—A character—Negroes' want of ..."

7. Over the Teacups by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"In dealing with them, acquiescence is the best of palliations and silence the sovereign specific. I have been the reporter, as you have seen, ..."

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