Both Uses of
mitigate
in
Moby Dick
- He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.†
Chpt 16-18
- He was intent on an audacious, immitigable, and supernatural revenge.
Chpt 40-42 *immitigable = impossible to make less harmful or extremestandard prefix: The prefix "im-" in immitigable means not and reverses the meaning of mitigable. This prefix is sometimes used before words beginning with "M" or "P" as seen in words like immoral, immature, and impossible.
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant