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palliatively

adv

Etymology

From palliative + -ly.

  1. derived from pallium
  2. derived from palliō — “to cloak”
  3. derived from *palliātīvus✻
  4. borrowed from palliatif
  5. suffixed as palliatively — “palliative + ly”

Definitions

  1. With palliative care.

    • In the case of Ethel Hannah, he says, the family could have instructed the hospital to not treat her pneumonia and to treat her palliatively.

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