panacaea

plural panacaeas

1. alternativeAlternative form of panacea.

   I find that while the move towards global justice is in many ways heartening, we ought not believe that it is a panacaea.

   2013, Chandra Lekha Sriram, Globalizing Justice for Mass Atrocities: A Revolution in Accountability, →ISBN

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   In a context of financial constraint, faced with the inefficiency of large organizations, the failure of large projects and white elephants, some see in this sector a panacaea or an alternative development model, the image of the success of the market against the State or the beauty of the small.

   1989, Philippe Hugon, Caroline Farrugia, The Informal Sector: Women and Development Planning in Africa

   In fact, the claims made by many early manufacturers went beyond mere comfort; they essentially promised to be panacaeas for all your rear-end afflictions.

   2012, Richard Smyth, Bum Fodder: An Absorbing History of Toilet Paper, →ISBN

   The recapitulation of the developments at Aulis is momentarily interrupted, at the point of Agamemnon's hopeless decision, to evoke a false picture of security in Zeus, and to underscore the enigma of the universal order, while at the same time holding out such make-believe panacaeas as sophrosyne and the like.

   2014, Richard Rader, Theology and Existentialism in Aeschylus: Written in the Cosmos, →ISBN