Meaning of allevation | Babel Free

Definitions

Alleviation.

countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“When infirmities are grown habitual and remedileſſe,all we can do is to give them ſome Reſpite and a little Allevation, that we may be leſſe ſenſible of the ſmart and ſting they ſmite us with.”

“is it any allevation of your grief and horror that all your Family is together?”

“Tho' his Drunkenneſs was rather an aggravation, than an Excuſe of his Crime, yet this was what he inſiſted on, in allevation of it.”

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