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Hypnotic suggestion, which induces sleep, stills pain, silences fear, abolishes functional disturbances, works chiefly palliatively.

From The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 by Various

“There’s lies—and lies,” he offered palliatively, breaking a painful silence.

From The Ranchman by Seltzer, Charles Alden