Both Uses of
mitigate
in
Love in the Time of Cholera
- But in time the affection of his family, the Sundays in the country, and the covetous attentions of the unmarried women of his class mitigated the bitterness of his first impression.
Chpt 3 *mitigated = made less unpleasant
- Kept awake by the gunfire whizzing over the roofs, she continued to evoke her husband's excellent qualities until daybreak, not reproaching him for any disloyalty other than his having died without her, which was mitigated by her conviction that he had never belonged to her as much as he did now that he was in the coffin nailed shut with a dozen three-inch nails and two meters under the ground.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant