palliation

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  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

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French palliation, from Latin palliare (“to cloak; to conceal”), from Latin pallium (“cloak”). By surface analysis, palliate + -ion.

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