All 3 Uses of
mitigate
in
Crime and Punishment
- What he dreaded above all was meeting that man again; he hated him with an intense, unmitigated hatred and was afraid his hatred might betray him.†
Chpt 4.5
- "That's just what I feared, that you wouldn't care about the mitigation of sentence."†
Chpt 6.2
- How can you say you don't want a mitigation of sentence?
Chpt 6.2 *mitigation = reduction (in harm or unpleasantness)
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant