The Only Use of
mitigate
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- And so a quiet, respectable, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to 'feel sorry' for a white woman has had to put his word against two white people's.
p. 232.4unmitigated = complete (not made less harmful or unpleasant in any way)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.
Definition:
make less harmful or unpleasant