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Refrigeratory

Mitigating heat cooling

Rigorous

Manifesting exercising or favoring rigor allowing no abatement or mitigation scrupulously accurate exact strict severe relentless as a rigorous officer

point

in calculating a sentence by various factors (as aggravating or mitigating circumstances) b : a unit used in the pricing of

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parkinsonism

degeneration of the cells producing that agent It can be mitigated by chemotherapy with agents such as levodopa 3 hydroxy L

sentence

or downward adjustment of its severity depending on aggravating and mitigating factors split sentence : a sentence of which part is

aggravating circumstance

by the court esp. in imposing a death sentence compare mitigating circumstance

aggravator

aggravates ;esp : aggravating circumstance [weigh the s and the mitigators in fixing a sentence]

avoidable consequences

avoidable consequences : mitigation of damages

battered woman's syndrome

not imminent. Battered woman's syndrome is also used as a mitigating factor in sentencing.

death penalty

unconstitutional, however. A sentencing judge is required to consider any mitigating circumstances before imposing the death penalty for a crime.

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