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palliation🔊

The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief.

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The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.
Una nox dormienda means that one final night that has to be slept through after a few score years of pain and its palliations, of pleasure and disgust after pleasure.

Extenuation; mitigation.

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