Mitigation

//mɪtɪˈɡeɪʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A reduction or decrease of something harmful or unpleasant. countable, uncountable

    "Two golden hours, in which the astonishing news of the intended party was revealed to Louisa, with all of its contrivances, expenses, and mitigations, so far as they were elucidated, were given and said to be "done in her honour;"..."

  2. 2
    the action of lessening in severity or intensity wordnet
  3. 3
    to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious wordnet
  4. 4
    a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French mitigation, from Latin mitigatio.

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