When a general rule has an exception, the exception mitigates and does not aggravate the rule.
When a general rule has an exception not according therewith, the exception both mitigates and aggravates.
More generous sorrow, while it sinks, exalts; And conscious virtue mitigates the pang.
Ignorance, which in behavior mitigates a fault, is, in literature, a capital offense.
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
Whatever mitigates the woes or increases the happiness of others, this is my criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, this is my measure of iniquity.
A spirit of greater thankfulness is often engendered by suffering itself; it is one of the "sweet uses of adversity," and mitigates it immensely.
When we have taken too much shad for breakfast, we find that a wineglass of whiskey instantly mitigates the horrors of indigestion, and enables us again to contemplate the future without dismay.
Further, strength of soul mitigates pain, so much so that the Stoics held there was no sadness in the soul of a wise man; and Aristotle (Ethic.
By reason of its coolness it tempers superfluous heat: wherefore it fittingly mitigates the concupiscence of the fomes.
He says it does not cut short the attack, but mitigates the paroxysm.
The combined action of the quinia and opium mitigates the patient's headache and lumbar pains.
Stamped and applied to the head itmitigates the pains thereof, being somewhat cool in quality.
The juice of Citrons cools the blood, strengthens the heart, mitigates the violent heat of fevers.
For severity is inflexible in the infliction of punishment when right reason requires it; while clemency mitigates punishment also according to right reason, when and where this is requisite.
Now clemency and meekness likewise consist in a certain restraint, since clemency mitigates punishment, while meekness represses anger, as stated above (AA.
As to clemency, inasmuch as it mitigates punishment, it would seem to approach nearest to charity, the greatest of the virtues, since thereby we do good towards our neighbor, and hinder his evil.
For clemency mitigates punishment, as stated above (A.
What magicmitigates Each plague of travel to the unpractised wife?
County business stimulates his activity, mitigates his class prejudices, and forms his judgment: and his standard of honour will keep him substantially right amid much fluctuation of opinions.
The dog also understands his own sufferings and mitigates them.
Hence he mitigates both by introducing the divine will as mediating between God and the world.
Accordingly he maintains freedom in all its rigor, and mitigates the conception of omniscience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mitigates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
