Both Uses of
mitigate
in
The Hound of the Baskervilles
- The man was a danger to the community, an unmitigated scoundrel for whom there was neither pity nor excuse.
Chpt 9 *unmitigated = complete (not diminished) -- usually used to say that something that is harmful or unpleasant is not in any way made less badstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unmitigated means not and reverses the meaning of mitigated. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- To him it may have been an unmitigated relief, but she wept bitterly in her apron.†
Chpt 13
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant