alleviation

[From Lat. allevatio = a lifting up.] 1. The act of lightening, le ening, or mitigating an emotion, or extenuating a fault. "All apologies for and alleviations of faults, though they are the heights of humanity, yet they are not the favours, but the duties of friendship."- South . 2. That which le ens or mitigates sorrow or other emotion, or extenuates a fault; an alleviating circumstance. "Pleasures. 32. Relaxation; 33. Alleviation ; 34. Migation.-Bowring: Bentham's Table of the Springs of Action . (Works, i. 205.)