Palliate vs Propitiate - What's the difference?
palliate | propitiate |
(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:
(dated) To conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.
* Alexander Pope
As verbs the difference between palliate and propitiate
is that palliate is to relieve the symptoms of; to ameliorate while propitiate is to conciliate, appease, or make peace with someone, particularly a god or spirit.As an adjective palliate
is cloaked; hidden, concealed.palliate
English
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. ----propitiate
English
Verb
(propitiat)- Let fierce Achilles, dreadful in his rage, / The god propitiate , and the pest assuage.
