All 3 Uses of
mitigate
in
A Room of One's Own
- And if anyone complains that prunes, even when mitigated by custard, are an uncharitable vegetable (fruit they are not), stringy as a miser's heart and exuding a fluid such as might run in misers' veins who have denied themselves wine and warmth. for eighty years and yet not given to the poor, he should reflect that there are people whose charity embraces even the prune.†
Chpt 1
- whatever the value of unmitigated masculinity upon the state, one may question the effect of it upon the art of poetry.
Chpt 6 *unmitigated = complete (not diminished)standard 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.
- For one can hardly fail to be impressed in Rome by the sense of unmitigated masculinity; and whatever the value of unmitigated masculinity upon the state, one may question the effect of it upon the art of poetry.†
Chpt 6
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant