To act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious.
1 No witnesses had been examined, no degrees of guilt acknowledged, no palliations admitted.
2 In dealing with them, acquiescence is the best of palliations and silence the sovereign specific.
3 Nor will I aggravate my crime, by disingenuous palliations .
4 That answer of hers was quite long, quite frank, wholly free from concealments or palliations .
5 But the waiters would listen to no explanations, no palliations ; he must be placed in custody.
6 The crime of Elizabeth doubtless has palliations .
7 The present is no time for palliations .
8 He dashed away all excuses and palliations .
9 She combines the faults of a passionate woman with those of the tender-hearted woman, without having their palliations .
10 She attempted no palliations here.
11 An ordinary boy would have broken into a flood of explanations and palliations , but Owen simply bowed, and said nothing.
12 Consolations, palliations at most.
13 So these accounts of the matter you must consider as reasons and palliations , concluding, "I plead guilty, my Lord!"
14 But what, Sir!-Wouldyou ever more argue with me, as if you were a child ? - Seeking palliations , and making promises?-Promises of what, Sir?
15 Purpose: A new method of palliation of malignant obstructive jaundice is presented.
16 For patients with active disease, this regimen provides at best modest palliation .
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