allevation

plural allevations

1. countableobsoleteuncountableAlleviation.

   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

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   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

   Tho' his Drunkenneſs was rather an aggravation, than an Excuſe of his Crime, yet this was what he inſiſted on, in allevation of it.

   1739, James Guthrie, The Ordinary of Newgate, […], number IV, London: […] John Applebee, page 7