A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1983 (DOST Vol. V).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1537-1538
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Palliatioun, n. [e.m.E. palliation (1557) the concealing of an act, in this sense (1605).] The action of extenuating, in sense b of Palliat v. —a1538 Abell 119 b.
Confessionis thare … all full of purite without palliatioun
