Both Uses
mitigate
in
Washington's Farewell Address
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- And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it.†
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- Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)