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Example sentences for "panacea"

Lexicographically close words:
pamphleteering; pamphleteers; pamphlets; pan; pana; panaceas; panache; panada; panas; pancake
  1. Nobody in his senses expects a panacea for the comparatively simple and trivial business of playing chess.

  2. Our panacea for all discontents was the franchise.

  3. The symptoms which the extirpation of their ovaries was to relieve, persisted as before, and they discovered, when it was too late, that spaying is not a panacea for the ills that suffering women are heir to.

  4. A little less sentiment and more sense is a wholesome panacea for some of the abuses of the marital contract.

  5. III Information of Panacea Without some such means of getting and spreading information there is no hope for fundamental social advance.

  6. He shows this obstructed by poverty in so many ways that there is no panacea for it, and a variety of remedies are requisite.

  7. True for ourselves we still believe as fully as ever that the salvation of Jesus Christ is the one great panacea for all the sins and miseries of mankind.

  8. It was considered by the ancients a panacea for every ill.

  9. Lord Bacon is said to have believed in the existence of a panacea that would prolong life beyond its natural term.

  10. Punishment, which has professed to be such a simple and powerful remedy against all the factors of crime, is therefore a panacea whose potency is far beneath its reputation.

  11. I will confine myself to a few examples, in order to show that amongst practical men, as amongst public officials and legislators, the illusion that punishments are the true panacea of crime is always predominant.

  12. Again, the Druidical notion that the mistletoe was an "all-healer" or panacea may be compared with a notion entertained by the Walos of Senegambia.

  13. James Duncan, of the Faculty of Montpellier, in his book Wholesome Advice against the Abuse of Hot Liquors, done into English in 1706, found coffee no more deserving of the name of panacea than that of poison.

  14. Gentle panacea of domestic troubles, Faithful author of that sweet nepenthe which deadens all the ills that married folks are heir to.

  15. Government interference, the panacea of cranks and schemers.

  16. Railroads seemed the panacea for industrial and commercial ills, and every inducement was held out and every sacrifice made by communities to become participants of their blessings.

  17. By the old herbalists the Broom was considered a panacea for a multiplicity of disorders, and Gerarde tells us that no less a personage than "that worthy Prince of famous memory, Henry VIII.

  18. These ill-favoured beldames had a panacea for every disease, a charm or a potion for every disorder, a talisman or amulet against every ill.

  19. Longs to see you and your wife, which will be a panacea for him.

  20. She a modern Medusa, to be a panacea for him or any one!

  21. You entered with the intention of making her a visit, and one can see at a glance that the being here would be a panacea to your unfortunate husband; I again ask, why you have changed your mind?

  22. But even under these charitable assumptions, it does not follow that literacy will, or should, continue to remain the panacea for all human expression, communication, and signification.

  23. The philanthropic bishop finds that a national bank will redeem his country from all her troubles, and that tar-water is a panacea for every ill the flesh is heir to.

  24. Berkeley's belief in the healing powers of tar-water is better known, and his efforts to get it recognised as a panacea scarcely require mention.

  25. But it is not the manufactured panacea of any theorist or philosopher whatever.

  26. The English critics, who say we have taken the government from the capable few and given it to the people, speak of universal suffrage as a quack panacea of this "era of progress.

  27. The constitution of 1812 eventually got to be regarded as if it would be the panacea for all the ills of mankind, and was fervently proclaimed by glib orators, who could not have stated the exact nature of its provisions.

  28. Colonel Lygon having briefly addressed the meeting, warning them not to regard Parliamentary Reform as a panacea for their ills, Richard Spooner, Esq.

  29. It is only fair to point out at the same time that this remedy is far from being a panacea against all trusts and monopolies.

  30. Shall our panacea be to do away with all monopolies, and put every industry back upon the competitive system?

  31. This evening," answered Kitty, "over to the Martinsville Springs in Indiana, and because mother is firmly convinced that they are the panacea for all the ills that flesh is heir to.

  32. Her chafing dish was her panacea for many ills.

  33. In a word, it was the great panacea of which physicians and alchemists had so long dreamed, but had hitherto been unable to find.

  34. Nay, more, it was not long before it was proclaimed as a panacea for all the ills that poor suffering humanity is heir to.

  35. Nearly every one who talks about education has some mental panacea for it; but the trouble lies deeper than that.

  36. Charity that really touches the heart is a panacea for more ills than any remedy we have.

  37. A simple and superstitious community that had steadily resisted the practical domestic and agricultural American improvements, succumbed to the occult healing influences of the Panacea and Jones's Bitters.

  38. Old wine is a true panacea For ev'ry conceivable ill, When you cherish the soothing idea That somebody else pays the bill!


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "panacea" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    cure; drug; elixir; medicine; remedy