Palliate vs Extenuatory - What's the difference?
palliate | extenuatory |
(obsolete) Cloaked; hidden, concealed.
(obsolete) Eased; mitigated; alleviated.
To relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.
* 2009 , Boris Johnson, The Evening Standard , 15 Jan 09:
(obsolete) To hide or disguise.
To cover or disguise the seriousness of (a mistake, offence etc.) by excuses and apologies.
(obsolete) To lessen the severity of; to extenuate, moderate, qualify.
To placate or mollify.
* 2007 , "Looking towards a Brown future", The Guardian , 25 Jan 07:
Tending to extenuate or palliate.
* (John Wilson Croker)
As adjectives the difference between palliate and extenuatory
is that palliate is cloaked; hidden, concealed while extenuatory is tending to extenuate or palliate.As a verb palliate
is to relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate.palliate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- (Bishop Hall)
- (Bishop Fell)
Verb
(palliat)- And if there are some bankers out there who are still embarrassed by the size of their bonuses, then I propose that they palliate their guilt by giving to the Mayor's Fund for London to help deprived children in London.
- Brown's options for the machinery of Whitehall are constrained, as for all prime ministers, by the need to palliate allies and hug enemies close (John Reid, say).
References
* Paternoster, Lewis M. and Frager-Stone, Ruth. Three Dimensions of Vocabulary Growth. Second Edition. Amsco School Publications: USA. 1998. ----extenuatory
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Johnson has spread over Savage's character the varnish, or rather the veil, of stately diction and extenuatory phrases, but cannot prevent the observant reader from seeing that Savage was an ungrateful and insolent profligate.