allevation

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English

Etymology

From Latin allevātiō.

Noun

allevation (countable and uncountable, plural allevations)

  1. (obsolete) Alleviation.
    • 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:
      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.
    • 1683, Thomas Vincent, Christ's Certain and Sudden Appearance to Judgement, 6th edition, London:   George Calvert, page 85:
      is it any allevation of your grief and horror that all your Family is together?
    • 1739, James Guthrie, The Ordinary of Newgate,  , number IV, London:   John Applebee, page 7:
      Tho' his Drunkenneſs was rather an aggravation, than an Excuſe of his Crime, yet this was what he inſiſted on, in allevation of it.