palliates
- present tense form of palliate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Counting it no doubt palliates if not deadens any reservations.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017
But the art that palliates Humbert’s misery has not notably relieved the distress of reviewers, most of whom have felt obliged to ask themselves, “Why has the author done this horrid thing?”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 1958
But this is certain: one wrong neither justifies nor palliates another.
From The Vote That Made the President by Field, David Dudley
Another State Paper palliates the deportations by blazoning the descent of a solitary invader upon a remote island on the 12th of April, heralded by mysterious warnings from the Admiralty to the Irish Command.
From Ulster's Stand For Union by McNeill, Ronald John
"You perceive, then, that Pietro's claim to the young lady somewhat palliates his violence."
From Barbarossa; An Historical Novel of the XII Century. by Bolanden, Conrad von
