Definitions
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- adjective made less severe or intense.
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- adjective
lessened ,reduced ,diminished - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
mitigate .
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- adjective made less severe or intense
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Examples
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6 The fearless spirit of Leo, his authority and eloquence, again mitigated the fierceness of a
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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But in a crucial departure from Empiricism and towards what might be called a mitigated rationalism, Kant also holds that not all cognition
Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009
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This conservative, fallibilist position, which Hume calls mitigated scepticism, is the proper epistemic attitude for anyone “sensible of the strange infirmities of human understanding”
David Hume Morris, William Edward 2009
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He might be described as a mitigated modernist in these years, in which he advocated the popularization of science by means of Institutes and similar centres of enlightenment, and welcomed new inventions -- while reserving to himself the right to burlesque their possibilities, and to ridicule the pretensions of pompous professors and futile philosophers.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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It was Rideau's victimizations that "mitigated" murder into manslaughter.
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It was Rideau's victimizations that "mitigated" murder into manslaughter.
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And Dimon's friends have also been reassuring investors that any regulatory impact will be "mitigated" by increasing prices elsewhere:
Tim Chen: We Will All Have to Pay for Financial Reform Tim Chen 2010
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By returning to work as soon as he could he had 'mitigated' his position in that he reduced his potential loss of earnings claim to virtually nothing.
Archive 2008-01-01 Thatsnews 2008
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Indeed, of all the problems established in the red team reports, precisely NONE of those risks can be eliminated, perhaps a majority can be "mitigated" or have their risks reduced some, and a few resist even reasonable mitigation attempts.
Why all California's electronic voting systems should be decertified 2007
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Kousari said that he expected, at best, a "mitigated" reaction from rich nations to UNCTAD's idea.
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