Definition of "palliation" [pal•li•a•tion]

• The alleviation of a disease's symptoms without a cure; temporary relief. (noun)

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• ""I am glad to hear you say so," said Cap. "Miss Black, please hear this in palliation – I would not presume to say in defense – of my conduct: I was driven to frenzy by a passion of contending love and jealousy as violent and maddening as it was unreal and transient."
• "It is true that he afterwards composed an elaborate apology for his people in the form of a history in twenty volumes, which may be considered as a kind of palliation for the evil he had done them in action."
• ""If you have a terminal diagnosis, you are a hospice candidate, you have an incurable disease that required palliation, meaning the relieving of symptoms, I think we need as many tools in that scenario as we can have," Dr. Miller added."