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a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 119^v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Palliatioun Confessionis thare..all full of purite without palliatioun.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Mm2^v Herein comes in crookedly and dangerously, a palliation of a great part of Ceremoniall Magicke. View more context for this quotation

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness To Rdr. ¶15. p. xiv The foments of strife and palliations of Hypocrisy.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa IV. liv. 347 Evils self-caused..admit not of palliation.

1766 E. Griffith Double Mistake v. iv. 76 I can only, in palliation of my behaviour, say, that it was not badness of heart..which tempted me to leave my sphere.

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. ii. 28 He was anxious while vindicating himself to say nothing unkind of the others; but there was only one amongst them whose conduct he could mention without some necessity of defence or palliation . View more context for this quotation

1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. vi. 570 He could not..invoke even the tyrant's plea of necessity in palliation of his evil deeds.

1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xxx. 481 There were excuses, of course, palliations, extenuating circumstances.

1999 Civil War Hist. (Nexis) 1 June 99 Cases where it can be shown that the prisoner was impressed into the rebel service, or which can plead in palliation extreme youth, followed by open and declared repentance..may be specifically reported.