Church, could scarcely be expected to make discriminations, or suggest palliating circumstances, favorable to any class of their adversaries.
Palliating the evil, hiding the evil, voting for the evil, do we not participate in it?
But above all, let them not aid in excusing and palliating it.
There he accordingly found the unhappy victim sitting with some of his friends; and the surgeon, instead of palliating his former conduct, began to insult him afresh with the most opprobrious invectives.
But this attempt, so far from palliating the existing evils, has had the greatest possible tendency to aggravate them; for it has too often vested irresponsible power in hands wholly unfit to wield it.
But to conclude: How much soever men differ in the course of life they prefer, and in their ways of palliating and excusing their vices to themselves; yet all agree in one thing, desiring to die the death of the righteous.
Notice every palliating circumstance, and take as favorable a view of the thing as you can, while, at the same time, you fix most firmly in your mind the determination to put a stop to it.
It must be indulgent, so far as the view which the teacher takes of the guilt of the pupil, is concerned; everypalliating consideration must be felt.
It is a great mistake to suppose that Mr. Gladstone was all leniency, or that when he thought ill of men, he stayed either at palliating words or at half-measures.
A very complete view of an agrarian rising--though it left out allpalliating circumstances and the whole state of agrarian law!
Nay, do not shudder: there are many palliating circumstances which he did not know, but which I will relate to you hereafter, in order to calm and tranquilize your mind.
This is the younger Hunt's ingenious way of palliating the ugly fact, that Shelley often alleged one motive for a course of action, which was really consequent on another motive.
Lady Pelham could implicitly rely upon Laura's word; and finding that she was herself unsuspected, she had leisure to attemptpalliating the offence of her protege.
My heart (foolish thing) industrious to perplex itself, would fain have suggested some palliating circumstances in Mr Faulkland's favour; but I forbid it to interpose.
My mother had not patience to read this letter through; nice and punctilious as her virtue was, she passed a censure on the crime in gross, without admitting any palliating circumstance.
But one of the forms of unpleasantness most enjoyable to him was the snubbing of any gentle effort at palliating his mood.
It must be indulgent, so far as the view which the teacher takes of the guilt of the pupil is concerned; every palliating consideration must be felt.
Probably some transcriber of the text wrote them in the margin of his copy, by way of palliating the otherwise unbroken gloom of this oracle of coming woe.
A more complete acknowledgment of sin could hardly be conceived; no palliating circumstances are alleged, no excuses devised, of the kind with which men usually seek to soothe a disturbed conscience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "palliating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
