Monday 18th April
2016
Palliate \[pal-ee-eyt]
verb (used with object), palliated, palliating.
1. to relieve or lessen without curing; mitigate; alleviate.
2. to try to mitigate or conceal the gravity of (an offense) by excuses,
apologies, etc.; extenuate.
Quote
His companions suggested only what could palliate imprudence, or smooth objections; and by the time they had talked it all over together, and he had talked it all over again with Emma, in their walk back to Hartfield, he was become perfectly reconciled, and not far from thinking it the very best thing that Frank could possibly have done.
Jane Austen, Emma 1815
Origin
Palliate stems from the Late Latin palliātus meaning "cloaked, covered." It entered English in the early 1400’s.
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