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To make less severe intense harsh rigorous painful etc to soften to meliorate to alleviate to diminish to lessen as to mitigate heat or cold to mitigate grief...
Mitigation
Mitigation, abatement of anything penal, harsh, or painful. An address in mitigation is a speech made by the defendant or his counsel to the judge, after verdict or plea of guilty, and which may be followed by a speech in aggravation from the prosecuting counsel.By 27 & 28 Vict.c.110, justices were prohibited from mitigating minimum penalties in pursuance of any power of mitigating penalties conferred on such justices by any local or private Act of Parliament; but this Act is repealed, as to England, by the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, which gives an al-most unlimited power of mitigating such penalties as may be imposed by justices. See also the Probation of Offenders Act,1907 (7 Edw. 7, c. 17).Mitigation, means measures aimed at reducing the impact or effects of a disaster. [Gujarat State Disaster Management Act, 2003, s. 2(m)]...
Mitigation
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...
mitigator
mitigator : one that mitigates ;specif : mitigating circumstance [a statutory ] mit·i·ga·to·ry [mi-ti-gə-tȯr-ē] adj ...
mitigating circumstance
mitigating circumstance : a circumstance in the commission of an act that lessens the degree of criminal culpability [was convicted of manslaughter rather than murder because of mitigating circumstances] ;also : a circumstance or factor relating to an offense or defendant that does not bear on the question of culpability but that receives consideration by the court esp. in lessening the severity of a sentence [the mitigating circumstance of the defendant's terminal illness] compare aggravating circumstance ...
mitigate
mitigate -gat·ed -gat·ing vt : to lessen or minimize the severity of [what actions the State took to the hazardous conditions "Estate of Arrowwood v. State, 894 P.2d 642 (1995)"] [factors that the crime] see also mitigation of damages compare aggravate vi : to lessen or minimize the severity of one's losses or damage [a failure to ] mit·i·ga·tion [mi-tə-gā-shən] n mit·i·ga·tive [mi-tə-gā-tiv] adj ...
Mitigation of punishment
Mitigation of punishment, a reduction in punishment due to mitigating circumstances that reduce the Criminal's level of culpability, such as the existence of no prior convictions, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1018....
Mitigable
Admitting of mitigation that may be mitigated...
mitigating
serving to reduce blame of situations as mitigating factors mitigating circumstances Opposite of aggravating...
Mitigator
One who or that which mitigates...
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