All 3 Uses of
mitigate
in
Billy Budd
- Well, though many an arraigned mortal has in hopes of mitigated penalty pleaded guilty to horrible actions, did ever anybody seriously confess to envy?†
Chpt 12
- But this was an evanescence, and quickly repented of, as it were, by an immitigable look, pinching and shrivelling the visage into the momentary semblance of a wrinkled walnut.†
Chpt 17
- Can we not convict and yet mitigate the penalty?†
Chpt 21 *
Definition:
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(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant