Both Uses of
mitigate
in
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Let us therefore agree that the idea of eternal return implies a perspective from which things appear other than as we know them: they appear without the mitigating circumstance of their transitory nature.†
Chpt 1
- This mitigating circumstance prevents us from coming to a verdict.
Chpt 1 *mitigating = making less harmful or unpleasant
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant