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unˈmitigated, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not softened in respect of severity or intensity.
1599Shakes. Much Ado iv. i. 308 With publike accusation,..vnmittigated rancour. 1814Jane Austen Mansf. Park ix, The unmitigated glare of day. 1833L. Ritchie Wand. by Loire 26 [It] is not an unmitigated evil. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. xxv. 328 [He] fell sick with the unmitigated fatigue. 1873Symonds Gk. Poets v. 129 Supreme art lends solemnity and grandeur to the expression of unmitigated passion.
2. Not modified or toned down; absolute.
1840Mill Diss. & Disc. (1859) I. 428 Still more unmitigated savages, the wild Indians. 1849C. Brontë Shirley vii, Caroline ‘was glad to see them’ (an unmitigated fib). 1860All Year Round No. 72. 511 In very plain speech, I look on him as an unmitigated humbug. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Eur. iv. 311 A slope of hard, blue, unmitigated ice.
Hence unˈmitigatedly adv.
1851in C. Martyn W. Phillips (1890) 242 Of all the institutions of slavery on the face of the earth, there are none so unmitigatedly bad..as [that]..in the United States. 1865Ch. Times 11 Mar. 76/3 The unmitigatedly gloomy manner in which funerals are now conducted. 1884Manch. Exam. 27 Dec. 3/5 Nor is it unmitigatedly depressing, though far from cheerful. |