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Examples of salving
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So they are drawn to that conscience-salving potential oxymoron, the green building.
From the guardian.co.uk
Listening in the Great Beyond to Griffith's salving ballads, God might tap His foot.
From the time.com
The rich must risk more than the occasional conscience-salving contribution to charity.
From the independent.co.uk
This is not just about salving Western governments'wounded feelings.
From the economist.com
Western haves salving their guilt by interfering in a most egregious way will not solve Somalia's problems.
From the economist.com
Doesn't Hillary the Healer seem more salving, more uplifting, on the pages of Democratic Party history?
From the fresnobee.com
This is bad news for a department charged with policing the nation's borders and salving its social wounds.
From the economist.com
James Hansen of NASA GISS has condemned this as mere conscience salving on the part of those who are rich enough to do so.
From the independent.co.uk
Clinton's aides quickly turned the insult into a money-raising opportunity, campaign cash salving their wounds.
From the usatoday.com
- Ointment: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation
- Salvage: save from ruin, destruction, or harm
- Anything that remedies or heals or soothes; "he needed a salve for his conscience"
- Apply a salve to, usually for the purpose of healing
- (salving) demulcent: having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin
- A salve is a medical ointment used to soothe the head or other body surface. A popular eye medicine known as "Phrygian powder" was one of Laodicea's sources of wealth. The medical school at Laodicea was famous for the preparation and use of this eye salve.
- An ointment, cream or balm with soothing, healing or calming effects; Any thing or action that soothes or heals; To calm or assuage; To salvage
- To dream of salve, denotes you will prosper under adverse circumstances and convert enemies into friends.
- An herbal preparation mixed in oil and thickened with bees wax applied to the skin.
