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allevation

allevation noun: alleviation.

Noun

allevation (countable and uncountable, plural allevations)

  1. (obsolete) Alleviation.
    • 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.1661, Owen Feltham, “The Miſery of being old and ignorant” (chapter XXXI), in Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political, London: […] E. Cotes for A. Seile, page 250
    • is it any allevation of your grief and horror that all your Family is together?1683, Thomas Vincent, Christ's Certain and Sudden Appearance to Judgement, 6th edition, London: […] George Calvert, page 85

Forms of allevation

pluralallevations

Origin of allevation

From Latin allevātiō.

Questions about allevation

What does allevation mean?
Allevation means alleviation.
What part of speech is allevation?
Allevation is a noun.
What is the plural of allevation?
The plural of allevation is allevations.

Words near allevation in the dictionary

  1. allethrins
  2. allethrolone
  3. alletorphine
  4. Alleva
  5. Allevas
  6. allevation
  7. alleviable
  8. alleviant
  9. alleviants
  10. alleviate
  11. alleviated

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