(n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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