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Definition of Palliates
1. palliate [v] - See also: palliate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palliates
Literary usage of Palliates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"... and a vote of a want of confidence in their people which no past history or
present danger palliates or excuses, and to our now ever-varying and rapidly ..."
2. Reply to Rev. Dr. Woods' "Lecture on Swedenborgianism ;": Delivered in the by George Bush, William Benjamin Hayden, Nathaniel Francis Cabell, Richard Kenner Crallé, Catherine Crowe, Justinus Andreas Christian Kerner, John Clowes, Massachusetts New-Church Union, Swedenborg Foundation (1847)
"And our author goes still further, and palliates the crime of adultery in other
circumstances ; namely, ' when a wife by craftiness captivates a man's mind, ..."
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