All 3 Uses
mitigate
in
Utopia, by Thomas More
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- On the contrary, they would look on the mitigation of the punishment as an invitation to commit more crimes.'†
*mitigation = reduction in harm or unpleasantness
- These laws, I say, might have such effect as good diet and care might have on a sick man whose recovery is desperate; they might allay and mitigate the disease, but it could never be quite healed, nor the body politic be brought again to a good habit as long as property remains; and it will fall out, as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore you will provoke another, and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others, while the strengthening one part of the body weakens the rest.†
- But those who bear their punishment patiently, and are so much wrought on by that pressure that lies so hard on them, that it appears they are really more troubled for the crimes they have committed than for the miseries they suffer, are not out of hope, but that, at last, either the Prince will, by his prerogative, or the people, by their intercession, restore them again to their liberty, or, at least, very much mitigate their slavery.†
Definitions:
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(1)
(mitigate) make less harmful or unpleasant
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)