Mitigation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for MITIGATION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of mitigating
• the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something
• The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
• to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
• a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances
• the action of lessening in severity or intensity
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cause to become less harsh or hostil; mollify

Words related to MITIGATION

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Words that contain MITIGATION

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How to use MITIGATION in a sentence

• I only move for a mitigation of punishment, and will state the circumstances upon which I base my appeal to the clemency of the court.
• Nor were the marked affection and confidence shown Kate by everybody in the house a mitigation of this malign fabric of humiliation.
• MATERIALS FOR REASONING Evidence for, against, and in mitigation 467.
• Medicine bore quite its full share in the mitigation of the horrors and hardships of war that marked the Nineteenth Century.
• Doolittle, on behalf of the prisoner, craved to address a few words to the Court in mitigation of sentence.
• Those which were sufferers by it would naturally seek for a mitigation of the burden.
• At the same time that we are thus severe on the Abandoned, we are apt to represent the Case of others with that Mitigation as the Circumstances demand.
• I say to myself all that a soberly thinking man can say in mitigation thereof, and yet I cannot forgive either Aniela or her mother the Kromitzki business.
• The godly, on the other hand, who by faith and devotion keep their hearts erect and near to God, enjoy the beginning of eternal life and obtain mitigation of the general distress.
• Nowhere else in plastic art does the mental world peculiar to the master press in so immediately, without modification and without mitigation, upon our sentient imagination.
• He was not less persevering, and scarcely less successful in his endeavors to obtain the mitigation of the slave laws in Maryland.
• So we raced on for mile after mile without pause or mitigation of our pace.
• That the Seminole chief with her tunic and beaded sash and her brilliant turban was very near him, was a pleasant and altogether accidental mitigation of his mishap.
• Much disadvantage will accrue generally from endeavors on the part of visiting ladies to procure the mitigation of the sentences of criminals.
• But at the expiration of many years, her behavior justified some mitigation of the penalty.
• Among people who submit to great physical suffering that they may have themselves handsomely tattooed, extremes of temperature are borne with but little attempt at mitigation.
• At the same time he was resolute in refusing to attempt any mitigation of his sufferings.
• Pol de Leon such mitigation of their fate, as may be thought admissible.
• The measures were likewise warmly advocated by Lord Brougham, who looked with confidence towards a general and effectual mitigation of the criminal code.
• During this session there was a further mitigation of the criminal code.
• The mitigation and removal of the disease during the year enabled medical and scientific men to give more calm and undisturbed investigation as to its phenomena.
• During a war, that mitigation of the action of natural selection which is so common now among civilized nations, is somewhat less effective than in times of peace.
• I managed to assist at the examination of the case, and I enclose herewith the copy of the mitigation of the sentence.
• On the way he again began wondering how Katusha would receive the news of the mitigation of her sentence.
• They may be entirely mistaken alike In their estimate of mischief and their hope of mitigation.
• I could, of course, obtain some mitigation of these conditions, but the same reason that compelled my return to London, Mr.
• His remark about the money having been recovered must have had reference to a possible mitigation of the sentence, and therefore took conviction for granted.
• Since that date the mitigation of the sufferings of war has been a conspicuous part of the work of the Order of St.
• The Church repeatedly intervened for the release of captives and mitigation of their condition.
• The most powerful argument Valverde employed to prevail with him to embrace the Christian faith, was a promise of mitigation in his punishment.
• Then were they likely to strike a blow at that slavery? Their measure would, then, of course, lead to an increase and not to a mitigation of the hardships of servitude.
• The treaty which I now submit to you proposes no alteration, mitigation, or modification of the rules of the law of nations.
• The old law had no such mitigation of its sentence.
• I cannot regard your case as having any political justification or standing, or as being susceptible of any mitigation by the recommendation of the jury.

Similar words containing MITIGA without suffix tion

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