What is that which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson called?
alleviation — That which mitigates, or makes more tolerable. I have not wanted such alleviations of life as friendship could supply. Johnson. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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